To adjourn in order to prevent action on a resolution providing for erection of certain public buildings therein named.

On Jan 27, 1879, the House voted 154–80. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 83–36, Democrats 71–43, Others 0–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 79 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: 154
No: 80
Did not vote: 67
Date: Jan 27, 1879

By party

Democrats71 yes · 43 no · 44 didn’t vote
Others0 yes · 2 no
Republicans83 yes · 36 no · 23 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL voted no
Robert Fulwood Ligon D-AL voted no
Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO voted no
James Phelps D-CT voted no
Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL voted no
Henry Richard Harris D-GA voted no
Milton Anthony Candler D-GA voted no
Theodore Weld Burdick R-IA voted no
William Aldrich R-IL voted no
Lorenzo Brentano R-IL voted no
Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted no
Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL voted no
Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL voted no
William Ralls Morrison D-IL voted no
William Hartzell D-IL voted no
Milton Stapp Robinson R-IN voted no
Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY voted no
Milton Jameson Durham D-KY voted no
Randall Lee Gibson D-LA voted no
Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA voted no
Joseph Barton Elam D-LA voted no
Edward White Robertson D-LA voted no
Benjamin Dean D-MA voted no
Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA voted no
Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted no
George Dexter Robinson R-MA voted no
Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME voted no
Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI voted no
Omar Dwight Conger R-MI voted no
Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN voted no
Jacob Henry Stewart R-MN voted no
Nathan Cole R-MO voted no
Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO voted no
Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO voted no
Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO voted no
Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO voted no
Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC voted no
Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC voted no
Alfred Moore Scales D-NC voted no
William McKendree Robbins D-NC voted no
Frank Jones D-NH voted no
Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ voted no
John Howard Pugh R-NJ voted no
Augustus William Cutler D-NJ voted no
Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted no
Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY voted no
Amaziah Bailey James R-NY voted no
Solomon Bundy R-NY voted no
George Augustus Bagley R-NY voted no
William Henry Baker R-NY voted no
John Henry Camp R-NY voted no
Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY voted no
George Washington Patterson R-NY voted no
Henry Blackstone Banning D-OH voted no
Thomas Ewing D-OH voted no
Ebenezer Byron Finley D-OH voted no
Richard Williams R-OR voted no
Chapman Freeman R-PA voted no
Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA voted no
Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA voted no
John Weinland Killinger R-PA voted no
Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA voted no
Harry White R-PA voted no
David Wyatt Aiken D-SC voted no
James Henry Randolph R-TN voted no
John Morgan Bright D-TN voted no
Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN voted no
William Parker Caldwell D-TN voted no
John Henninger Reagan D-TX voted no
De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX voted no
Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA voted no
Joseph Jorgensen R-VA voted no
John Thomas Harris D-VA voted no
Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA voted no
Dudley Chase Denison R-VT voted no
Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI voted no
Gabriel Bouck D-WI voted no
Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI voted no
Benjamin Franklin Martin D-WV 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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