To suspend the rules and pass H.R. 6463(20-stat-363, 3/3/79) the rivers and harbors appropriation bill.

On Feb 17, 1879, the House voted 173–74 (HR 6463). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 94–38, Republicans 79–41, Others 2–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 79 members voted against their own party.

During the 45th Congress (1877–1878), Rutherford B. Hayes was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.

Yes: 173
No: 74
Did not vote: 48
Date: Feb 17, 1879

By party

Democrats94 yes · 38 no · 26 didn’t vote
Others2 yes · 0 no
Republicans79 yes · 41 no · 22 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

William Ferguson Slemons D-AR voted no
Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR voted no
Horace Davis R-CA voted no
John King Luttrell D-CA voted no
Levi Warner D-CT voted no
James Williams D-DE voted no
Milton Anthony Candler D-GA voted no
William Aldrich R-IL voted no
William Lathrop R-IL voted no
Philip Cornelius Hayes R-IL voted no
Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL voted no
Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL voted no
Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL voted no
Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted no
John Rice Eden D-IL voted no
William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL voted no
Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL voted no
Leonidas Sexton R-IN voted no
Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN voted no
Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN voted no
John Hanna R-IN voted no
Michael Doherty White R-IN voted no
Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN voted no
John Harris Baker R-IN voted no
Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY voted no
James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY voted no
Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA voted no
Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA voted no
Leopold Morse D-MA voted no
Amasa Norcross R-MA voted no
George Dexter Robinson R-MA voted no
Llewellyn Powers R-ME voted no
Charles Henry Morgan D-MO voted no
Hernando De Soto Money D-MS voted no
Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC voted no
Alfred Moore Scales D-NC voted no
Walter Leak Steele D-NC voted no
James Frankland Briggs R-NH voted no
Henry William Blair R-NH voted no
Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY voted no
Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted no
Anson George Mccook R-NY voted no
Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY voted no
Amaziah Bailey James R-NY voted no
John Henry Starin R-NY voted no
William Johnson Bacon R-NY voted no
Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY voted no
Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY voted no
John Newton Hungerford R-NY voted no
Charles Brewster Benedict D-NY voted no
John A. Mcmahon D-OH voted no
Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH voted no
Henry Luther Dickey D-OH voted no
John Sills Jones R-OH voted no
Henry Safford Neal R-OH voted no
Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH voted no
Ebenezer Byron Finley D-OH voted no
Lorenzo Danford R-OH voted no
Chapman Freeman R-PA voted no
Hiester Clymer D-PA voted no
Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA voted no
Francis Dolan Collins D-PA voted no
James Bernard Reilly D-PA voted no
John Weinland Killinger R-PA voted no
John Inscho Mitchell R-PA voted no
Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA voted no
William Shearer Stenger D-PA voted no
Levi Maish D-PA voted no
Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA voted no
Russell Errett R-PA voted no
Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA voted no
William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA voted no
John McCandless Thompson R-PA voted no
James Henry Randolph R-TN voted no
Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN voted no
William Parker Caldwell D-TN voted no
John Thomas Harris D-VA voted no
Eppa Hunton D-VA voted no
Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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Capitol Receipts, “To suspend the rules and pass H.R…: House Vote, Feb 17, 1879,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/45-H-326/to-suspend-the-rules-and-pass-h-r-6463 (accessed 2026-10-17).