House roll call 66 · 45th Congress · Jan 28, 1878
To suspend the rules and adopt a resolution providing that, in the judgement of the house, no subsidies in money, bonds, public lands, or by pledge of the publi
On Jan 28, 1878, the House voted 176–85. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 89–47, Republicans 87–37, Others 1–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 84 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
- 176
- No
- 85
- Did not vote
- 40
- Date
- Jan 28, 1878
By party
- Democrats89 yes · 47 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 1 no
- Republicans87 yes · 37 no · 18 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Taylor Jones D-AL voted no
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL voted no
- William Willis Garth D-AL voted no
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR voted no
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR voted no
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT voted no
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL voted no
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL voted no
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA voted no
- Leonidas Sexton R-IN voted no
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN voted no
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY voted no
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA voted no
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA voted no
- Joseph Barton Elam D-LA voted no
- John Edwards Leonard R-LA voted no
- Edward White Robertson D-LA voted no
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA voted no
- Leopold Morse D-MA voted no
- William Claflin R-MA voted no
- William Whitney Rice R-MA voted no
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA voted no
- William Pierce Frye R-ME voted no
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI voted no
- Charles Clinton Ellsworth R-MI voted no
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI voted no
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN voted no
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN voted no
- Jacob Henry Stewart R-MN voted no
- Anthony Friday Ittner R-MO voted no
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO voted no
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS voted no
- Vannoy Hartrog (Van) Manning D-MS voted no
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS voted no
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS voted no
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS voted no
- James Ronald Chalmers D-MS voted no
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC voted no
- Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC voted no
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC voted no
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC voted no
- Walter Leak Steele D-NC voted no
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC voted no
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC voted no
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ voted no
- John Howard Pugh R-NJ voted no
- Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ voted no
- Andrew Williams R-NY voted no
- Solomon Bundy R-NY voted no
- George Washington Patterson R-NY voted no
- Richard Williams R-OR voted no
- Charles O'Neill R-PA voted no
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted no
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA voted no
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA voted no
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA voted no
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA voted no
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA voted no
- Russell Errett R-PA voted no
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA voted no
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC voted no
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC voted no
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC voted no
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC voted no
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN voted no
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN voted no
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN voted no
- John Ford House D-TN voted no
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN voted no
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN voted no
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX voted no
- David Browning Culberson D-TX voted no
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX voted no
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX voted no
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX voted no
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX voted no
- John Goode Jr. D-VA voted no
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA voted no
- Eppa Hunton D-VA voted no
- Dudley Chase Denison R-VT voted no
And 4 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- Robert Fulwood Ligon D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- Horace Davis R-CA
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO
- James Phelps D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- Joseph Champlin Stone R-IA
- Hiram Price R-IA
- Theodore Weld Burdick R-IA
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering R-IA
- Rush Clark R-IA
- Henry Johnson Brodhead Cummings R-IA
- William Fletcher Sapp R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- William Aldrich R-IL
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- Lorenzo Brentano R-IL
- William Lathrop R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Philip Cornelius Hayes R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- George Augustus Bicknell D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- John Hanna R-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- Michael Doherty White R-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY
- John William Caldwell D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- Thomas Turner D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Walbridge Abner Field R-MA
- George Bailey Loring R-MA
- Amasa Norcross R-MA
- Daniel Maynadier Henry D-MD
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME
- Llewellyn Powers R-ME
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Edwin Willits R-MI
- Jonas Hartzell Mcgowan R-MI
- Edwin William Keightley R-MI
- John Wesley Stone R-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Omar Dwight Conger R-MI
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Frank Welch R-NE
- Frank Jones D-NH
- James Frankland Briggs R-NH
- Alvah Augustus Clark D-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- James Way Covert D-NY
- William Davis Veeder D-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Anthony Eickhoff D-NY
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY
- Terence John Quinn D-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- Amaziah Bailey James R-NY
- John Henry Starin R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- William Johnson Bacon R-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY
- John Newton Hungerford R-NY
- Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY
- Charles Brewster Benedict D-NY
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- Mills Gardner R-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Jacob Dolson Cox R-OH
- Henry Luther Dickey D-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- John Sills Jones R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Henry Safford Neal R-OH
- Thomas Ewing D-OH
- Ebenezer Byron Finley D-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Amos Townsend R-OH
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- Edward Overton Jr. R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- James Henry Randolph R-TN
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- William Parker Caldwell D-TN
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
How each representative voted: No
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- William Willis Garth D-AL
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- Jordan Edgar Cravens O-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Leonidas Sexton R-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Joseph Barton Elam D-LA
- John Edwards Leonard R-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- William Claflin R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- Charles Clinton Ellsworth R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Jacob Henry Stewart R-MN
- Anthony Friday Ittner R-MO
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Vannoy Hartrog (Van) Manning D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers D-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC
- Walter Leak Steele D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- John Howard Pugh R-NJ
- Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- Solomon Bundy R-NY
- George Washington Patterson R-NY
- Richard Williams R-OR
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Russell Errett R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN
- John Ford House D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Dudley Chase Denison R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Benjamin Franklin Martin D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
Did not vote
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- William Bennett Fleming D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Joseph Hayes Acklen D-LA
- John Smith Young D-LA
- Benjamin Dean D-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- William Kimmel D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- Nathan Cole R-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- Henry Moses Pollard R-MO
- Thomas Jefferson Majors R-NE
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Thomas Wren R-NV
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- John Mosher Bailey R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- John Henry Camp R-NY
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Ward R-PA
- Harry White R-PA
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- Richard Lee Turberville Beale D-VA
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
Other votes
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