To suspend the rules and pass a Senate concurrent resolution authorizing the payment of U.S. Bonds in silver dollar coinage, equal to 412.5 grams of standard si

On Jan 28, 1878, the House voted 189–79. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 115–24, Republicans 75–56, Others 2–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 80 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: 189
No: 79
Did not vote: 30
Date: Jan 28, 1878

By party

Democrats115 yes · 24 no · 19 didn’t vote
Others2 yes · 0 no
Republicans75 yes · 56 no · 11 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Horace Davis R-CA voted no
George Marcellus Landers D-CT voted no
John Turner Wait R-CT voted no
Levi Warner D-CT voted no
James Williams D-DE voted no
Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL voted no
John Edwards Leonard R-LA voted no
William Wallace Crapo R-MA voted no
Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA voted no
Walbridge Abner Field R-MA voted no
Leopold Morse D-MA voted no
Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA voted no
George Bailey Loring R-MA voted no
William Claflin R-MA voted no
William Whitney Rice R-MA voted no
Amasa Norcross R-MA voted no
George Dexter Robinson R-MA voted no
Thomas Swann D-MD voted no
Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME voted no
William Pierce Frye R-ME voted no
Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME voted no
Llewellyn Powers R-ME voted no
Eugene Hale R-ME voted no
Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI voted no
Charles Clinton Ellsworth R-MI voted no
Jacob Henry Stewart R-MN voted no
Nathan Cole R-MO voted no
Frank Jones D-NH voted no
James Frankland Briggs R-NH voted no
Henry William Blair R-NH voted no
Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ voted no
John Howard Pugh R-NJ voted no
Alvah Augustus Clark D-NJ voted no
Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ voted no
Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted no
James Way Covert D-NY voted no
William Davis Veeder D-NY voted no
Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY voted no
Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY voted no
Nicholas Muller D-NY voted no
Anthony Eickhoff D-NY voted no
Anson George Mccook R-NY voted no
Fernando Wood D-NY voted no
Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY voted no
Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY voted no
Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY voted no
John Henry Ketcham R-NY voted no
George Monroe Beebe D-NY voted no
Terence John Quinn D-NY voted no
Andrew Williams R-NY voted no
Amaziah Bailey James R-NY voted no
John Henry Starin R-NY voted no
Solomon Bundy R-NY voted no
George Augustus Bagley R-NY voted no
William Johnson Bacon R-NY voted no
William Henry Baker 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
Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY voted no
Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY voted no
James Abram Garfield R-OH voted no
Richard Williams R-OR voted no
Chapman Freeman R-PA voted no
Charles O'Neill R-PA voted no
Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA voted no
Isaac Newton Evans R-PA voted no
Abraham Herr Smith R-PA voted no
Edward Overton Jr. R-PA voted no
Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA voted no
William Shearer Stenger D-PA voted no
Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA voted no
Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI voted no
Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI voted no
Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC voted no
Gustave Schleicher D-TX voted no
Joseph Jorgensen R-VA voted no
Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT voted no
Dudley Chase Denison R-VT voted no
George Whitman Hendee 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 a Senate…: House Vote, Jan 28, 1878,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/45-H-67/to-suspend-the-rules-and-pass-a-senate-concurrent (accessed 2026-10-15).