House roll call 107 · 45th Congress · Mar 25, 1878
To suspend the rules in order to consider the resolution discharging the committee on coinage weights and measures from further consideration of H.R. 3994, a bi
On Mar 25, 1878, the House voted 142–96. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 108–20, Republicans 37–79, Others 2–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 57 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
- 142
- No
- 96
- Did not vote
- 56
- Date
- Mar 25, 1878
By party
- Democrats108 yes · 20 no · 30 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
- Republicans37 yes · 79 no · 26 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Levi Warner D-CT voted no
- James Williams D-DE voted no
- Hiram Price R-IA voted yes
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering R-IA voted yes
- Rush Clark R-IA voted yes
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA voted yes
- Henry Johnson Brodhead Cummings R-IA voted yes
- William Fletcher Sapp R-IA voted yes
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL voted yes
- Philip Cornelius Hayes R-IL voted yes
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL voted yes
- Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL voted yes
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL voted yes
- Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL voted yes
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted yes
- Leonidas Sexton R-IN voted yes
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN voted yes
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN voted yes
- John Hanna R-IN voted yes
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN voted yes
- Michael Doherty White R-IN voted yes
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN voted yes
- John Harris Baker R-IN voted yes
- William Addison Phillips R-KS voted yes
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS voted yes
- Thomas Ryan R-KS voted yes
- Leopold Morse D-MA voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted yes
- Thomas Swann D-MD voted no
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI voted no
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO voted yes
- Henry Moses Pollard R-MO voted yes
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO voted no
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC voted no
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC voted no
- Miles Ross D-NJ voted no
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted no
- Thomas Wren R-NV voted yes
- James Way Covert D-NY voted no
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY voted no
- Nicholas Muller D-NY voted no
- Anthony Eickhoff D-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
- Solomon Bundy R-NY voted yes
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY voted no
- George Washington Patterson R-NY voted yes
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA voted yes
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA voted no
- William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA voted yes
- Harry White R-PA voted yes
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC voted yes
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- Robert Fulwood Ligon D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- William Willis Garth D-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- Jordan Edgar Cravens O-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- James Phelps D-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- Hiram Price R-IA
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering R-IA
- Rush Clark R-IA
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA
- Henry Johnson Brodhead Cummings R-IA
- William Fletcher Sapp R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- Carter Henry Harrison D-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
- John Rice Eden D-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
- Leonidas Sexton R-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
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- John William Caldwell D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis 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
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- Daniel Maynadier Henry D-MD
- William Kimmel D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- Henry Moses Pollard R-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-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
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Walter Leak Steele D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Thomas Wren R-NV
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY
- Solomon Bundy R-NY
- George Washington Patterson R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Henry Luther Dickey D-OH
- Thomas Ewing D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Ebenezer Byron Finley D-OH
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA
- Harry White R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN
- John Morgan Bright D-TN
- John Ford House D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- William Parker Caldwell 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
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Benjamin Franklin Martin D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Horace Davis R-CA
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Theodore Weld Burdick R-IA
- William Aldrich R-IL
- Lorenzo Brentano R-IL
- William Lathrop R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Walbridge Abner Field R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- George Bailey Loring R-MA
- William Claflin R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Amasa Norcross R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME
- Llewellyn Powers R-ME
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- 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
- Charles Clinton Ellsworth R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Jacob Henry Stewart R-MN
- Anthony Friday Ittner R-MO
- Nathan Cole R-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- James Frankland Briggs R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- James Way Covert D-NY
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Anthony Eickhoff D-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
- 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
- John Henry Camp R-NY
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY
- Mills Gardner R-OH
- Jacob Dolson Cox R-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- John Sills Jones R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- Henry Safford Neal R-OH
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Amos Townsend R-OH
- Richard Williams R-OR
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Edward Overton Jr. R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne 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
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- Dudley Chase Denison R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
Did not vote
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- William Bennett Fleming D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- Joseph Champlin Stone R-IA
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Joseph Hayes Acklen D-LA
- Joseph Barton Elam D-LA
- John Edwards Leonard R-LA
- John Smith Young D-LA
- Benjamin Dean D-MA
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC
- Frank Welch R-NE
- Thomas Jefferson Majors R-NE
- John Howard Pugh R-NJ
- Alvah Augustus Clark D-NJ
- William Davis Veeder D-NY
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- John Mosher Bailey R-NY
- Terence John Quinn D-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- Frank Hiscock 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
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- William Ward R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- Russell Errett R-PA
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- Richard Lee Turberville Beale D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
Other votes
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