House roll call 235 · 45th Congress · Jun 17, 1878
To amend H.R. 4414 by inserting after line 29 on page 46 a provision providing that as much of section 3437 of the revised statutes as provides for a tax on luc
On Jun 17, 1878, the House voted 179–66 (HR 4414). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 90–41, Republicans 88–24, Others 1–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 65 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
- 179
- No
- 66
- Did not vote
- 57
- Date
- Jun 17, 1878
By party
- Democrats90 yes · 41 no · 27 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 1 no
- Republicans88 yes · 24 no · 30 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Taylor Jones D-AL voted no
- William Willis Garth D-AL voted no
- James Williams D-DE voted no
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA voted no
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA voted no
- James Henderson Blount D-GA voted no
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering R-IA voted no
- Rush Clark R-IA voted no
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA voted no
- William Lathrop R-IL voted no
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted no
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL voted no
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted no
- John Rice Eden D-IL voted no
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN voted no
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY voted no
- James Proctor Knott D-KY voted no
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY voted no
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY voted no
- Thomas Turner D-KY voted no
- John Blades Clarke D-KY voted no
- Joseph Barton Elam D-LA voted no
- Edward White Robertson D-LA voted no
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA voted no
- William Whitney Rice R-MA voted no
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA voted no
- Daniel Maynadier Henry D-MD voted no
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME voted no
- Jacob Henry Stewart R-MN voted no
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO voted no
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow 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
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC voted no
- Walter Leak Steele D-NC voted no
- William McKendree Robbins 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
- Thomas Wren R-NV voted no
- Anthony Eickhoff D-NY voted no
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY voted no
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY voted no
- George Washington Patterson R-NY voted no
- Jacob Dolson Cox R-OH voted no
- Charles Foster R-OH voted no
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC voted no
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC voted no
- James Henry Randolph R-TN voted no
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN voted no
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN voted no
- John Morgan Bright D-TN voted no
- John Ford House D-TN voted no
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN voted no
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN voted no
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX voted no
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX voted no
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA voted no
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA voted no
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA voted no
- Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA voted no
- Dudley Chase Denison R-VT voted no
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI voted no
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
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- James Phelps D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- Theodore Weld Burdick R-IA
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA
- Henry Johnson Brodhead Cummings R-IA
- William Fletcher Sapp R-IA
- William Aldrich R-IL
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- Lorenzo Brentano R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Philip Cornelius Hayes R-IL
- Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks 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
- John Hanna R-IN
- William Henry Calkins 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
- James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY
- John William Caldwell D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Joseph Hayes Acklen D-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Dean D-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- William Claflin R-MA
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William Kimmel D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Llewellyn Powers R-ME
- Eugene Hale 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
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Anthony Friday Ittner R-MO
- Nathan Cole R-MO
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- Henry Moses Pollard R-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- Vannoy Hartrog (Van) Manning D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers D-MS
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Frank Welch R-NE
- Frank Jones D-NH
- James Frankland Briggs R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- 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
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- Solomon Bundy 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
- 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
- Henry Luther Dickey D-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- John Sills Jones R-OH
- Henry Safford Neal R-OH
- Thomas Ewing D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- Ebenezer Byron Finley D-OH
- Lorenzo Danford R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- James Monroe R-OH
- Amos Townsend R-OH
- Richard Williams R-OR
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- William Ward R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- Edward Overton Jr. R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- Russell Errett R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA
- Harry White R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- William Parker Caldwell D-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- William Willis Garth D-AL
- Jordan Edgar Cravens O-AR
- James Williams D-DE
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering R-IA
- Rush Clark R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- William Lathrop R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Thomas Turner D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Joseph Barton Elam D-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- Daniel Maynadier Henry D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Jacob Henry Stewart R-MN
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Walter Leak Steele D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- John Howard Pugh R-NJ
- Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ
- Thomas Wren R-NV
- Anthony Eickhoff D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- George Washington Patterson R-NY
- Jacob Dolson Cox R-OH
- Charles Foster R-OH
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- James Henry Randolph R-TN
- 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
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA
- Dudley Chase Denison R-VT
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
Did not vote
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- William Bennett Fleming D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Joseph Champlin Stone R-IA
- Hiram Price R-IA
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- Michael Doherty White R-IN
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- John Edwards Leonard R-LA
- John Smith Young D-LA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Walbridge Abner Field R-MA
- George Bailey Loring R-MA
- Amasa Norcross R-MA
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- William Walsh D-MD
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Thomas Jefferson Majors R-NE
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- John Mosher Bailey R-NY
- Terence John Quinn D-NY
- Amaziah Bailey James R-NY
- John Henry Starin R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- John Henry Camp R-NY
- Charles Brewster Benedict D-NY
- Nelson Holmes Van Vorhes R-OH
- James Abram Garfield R-OH
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- Richard Lee Turberville Beale D-VA
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Benjamin Franklin Martin D-WV
Other votes
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