House roll call 276 · 45th Congress · Jan 15, 1879
To amend H.R. 5477 by providing that the certificates on bonds shall be convertible with accrued interest after six months by holders unable to continue to pay
On Jan 15, 1879, the House voted 82–147 (HR 5477). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 68–47, Republicans 14–101, Others 1–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 61 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
- 82
- No
- 147
- Did not vote
- 70
- Date
- Jan 15, 1879
By party
- Democrats68 yes · 47 no · 43 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 1 no
- Republicans14 yes · 101 no · 27 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Taylor Jones D-AL voted no
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL voted no
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR voted no
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA voted no
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO voted no
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT voted no
- Levi Warner D-CT voted no
- James Williams D-DE voted no
- Philip Cook D-GA voted no
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA voted no
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL voted no
- Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL voted yes
- John Rice Eden D-IL voted no
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL voted no
- George Augustus Bicknell D-IN voted no
- Michael Doherty White R-IN voted yes
- William Henry Calkins R-IN voted yes
- William Addison Phillips R-KS voted yes
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS voted yes
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY voted no
- James Proctor Knott D-KY voted no
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY voted no
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY voted no
- Thomas Turner D-KY voted no
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA voted no
- Joseph Hayes Acklen D-LA voted no
- John Smith Young D-LA voted no
- Leopold Morse D-MA voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted yes
- Daniel Maynadier Henry D-MD voted no
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD voted no
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD voted no
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN voted yes
- Anthony Friday Ittner R-MO voted yes
- David Rea D-MO voted no
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO voted no
- Vannoy Hartrog (Van) Manning D-MS voted no
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS voted no
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC voted no
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC voted no
- Frank Jones D-NH voted no
- Miles Ross D-NJ voted no
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted no
- Thomas Wren R-NV voted yes
- Fernando Wood D-NY voted no
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY voted no
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY voted no
- Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY voted no
- Charles Brewster Benedict D-NY voted no
- Milton Sayler D-OH voted no
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH voted yes
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted yes
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA voted no
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA voted yes
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA voted no
- Jacob Turney D-PA voted no
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC voted no
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC voted no
- James Henry Randolph R-TN voted yes
- Eppa Hunton D-VA voted no
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Robert Fulwood Ligon D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- William Willis Garth D-AL
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- James Phelps D-CT
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Thomas Foster Tipton R-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
- Michael Doherty White R-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- John William Caldwell D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Joseph Barton Elam D-LA
- Benjamin Dean D-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- William Walsh D-MD
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Anthony Friday Ittner R-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers D-MS
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- Joseph Jonathan Davis D-NC
- Walter Leak Steele D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Thomas Wren R-NV
- James Way Covert D-NY
- Anthony Eickhoff D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH
- John A. Mcmahon D-OH
- Americus Vespucius Rice D-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- Thomas Ewing D-OH
- Milton Isaiah Southard D-OH
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- James Henry Randolph R-TN
- George Gibbs Dibrell 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
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Benjamin Franklin Martin D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- Jordan Edgar Cravens O-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- Horace Davis R-CA
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- Hiram Price R-IA
- Theodore Weld Burdick 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
- William Aldrich R-IL
- William Lathrop R-IL
- Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Philip Cornelius Hayes R-IL
- Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- George Augustus Bicknell D-IN
- Leonidas Sexton R-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- John Hanna R-IN
- Morton Craig Hunter R-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- Thomas Turner D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Joseph Hayes Acklen D-LA
- John Smith Young D-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- William Claflin R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Amasa Norcross R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- Daniel Maynadier Henry D-MD
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- William Pierce Frye 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
- Charles Clinton Ellsworth R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Jacob Henry Stewart R-MN
- Nathan Cole R-MO
- Lyne Shackelford Metcalfe R-MO
- David Rea D-MO
- Henry Moses Pollard R-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Vannoy Hartrog (Van) Manning D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- William McKendree Robbins D-NC
- Frank Jones D-NH
- James Frankland Briggs R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- John Howard Pugh R-NJ
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- John Mosher Bailey R-NY
- Andrew Williams R-NY
- Amaziah Bailey James R-NY
- John Henry Starin R-NY
- Solomon Bundy R-NY
- George Augustus Bagley R-NY
- William Johnson Bacon R-NY
- John Henry Camp 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
- George Washington Patterson R-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Jacob Dolson Cox 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
- William Ward R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA
- Edward Overton Jr. R-PA
- John Inscho Mitchell R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA
- Harry White R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- Dudley Chase Denison R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
Did not vote
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- William Bennett Fleming D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- Joseph Champlin Stone R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- Lorenzo Brentano R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- John Edwards Leonard R-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Walbridge Abner Field R-MA
- George Bailey Loring R-MA
- William Kimmel D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME
- Llewellyn Powers R-ME
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Alfred Moore Waddell D-NC
- Frank Welch R-NE
- Thomas Jefferson Majors R-NE
- Alvah Augustus Clark D-NJ
- William Davis Veeder D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY
- Terence John Quinn D-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY
- Mills Gardner R-OH
- Henry Luther Dickey D-OH
- Ebenezer Byron Finley D-OH
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- Russell Errett R-PA
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- Richard Lee Turberville Beale D-VA
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI
Other votes
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