To order the engrossment and third reading of H.R. 3712, a bill providing for the erection of a public building in kansas city, mo., and making appropriation n

On Mar 6, 1878, the House voted 164–72 (HR 3712). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 94–31, Republicans 69–41, Others 2–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 72 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: 164
No: 72
Did not vote: 65
Date: Mar 6, 1878

By party

Democrats94 yes · 31 no · 33 didn’t vote
Others2 yes · 0 no
Republicans69 yes · 41 no · 32 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL voted no
Levi Warner D-CT voted no
James Henderson Blount D-GA voted no
Rush Clark R-IA voted no
Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA voted no
Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted no
Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL voted no
Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL voted no
Robert McCarty Knapp D-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
William Hartzell D-IL voted no
Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL voted no
Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN voted no
George Augustus Bicknell D-IN voted no
Leonidas Sexton R-IN voted no
Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN voted no
John Harris Baker R-IN voted no
Milton Jameson Durham D-KY voted no
Thomas Turner D-KY voted no
Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA voted no
George Dexter Robinson R-MA voted no
William Pierce Frye R-ME voted no
Eugene Hale R-ME voted no
Edwin Willits R-MI voted no
Jonas Hartzell Mcgowan R-MI voted no
Edwin William Keightley R-MI voted no
John Wesley Stone R-MI voted no
Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI voted no
Horace Burton Strait R-MN voted no
Otho Robards Singleton D-MS voted no
Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC voted no
James Frankland Briggs R-NH voted no
Augustus William Cutler D-NJ voted no
Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted no
Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted no
Anthony Eickhoff D-NY voted no
John Henry Ketcham R-NY voted no
Amaziah Bailey James R-NY voted no
John Henry Starin R-NY voted no
Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY voted no
John Newton Hungerford R-NY voted no
Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY voted no
George Washington Patterson R-NY voted no
John A. Mcmahon D-OH voted no
Jacob Dolson Cox R-OH voted no
Charles Foster 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
William Mckinley Jr. R-OH voted no
James Monroe R-OH voted no
James Abram Garfield R-OH voted no
Hiester Clymer D-PA voted no
Abraham Herr Smith R-PA voted no
James Bernard Reilly D-PA voted no
John Weinland Killinger R-PA voted no
Edward Overton Jr. R-PA voted no
Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA voted no
Levi Maish D-PA voted no
Jacob Turney D-PA voted no
William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA voted no
Harry White R-PA voted no
John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN voted no
Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA voted no
Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT voted no
George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI voted no
William Pitt Lynde D-WI voted no
Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI voted no
Gabriel Bouck D-WI 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 order the engrossment and third reading…: House Vote, Mar 6, 1878,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/45-H-96/to-order-the-engrossment-and-third-reading-of-h (accessed 2026-10-17).