House roll call 331 · 45th Congress · Feb 21, 1879
That the house resolve into the committee of the whole to consider private bills.
On Feb 21, 1879, the House voted 125–121. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 105–26, Republicans 18–95, Others 2–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 44 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
- 125
- No
- 121
- Did not vote
- 56
- Date
- Feb 21, 1879
By party
- Democrats105 yes · 26 no · 27 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
- Republicans18 yes · 95 no · 29 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL voted no
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL voted no
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL voted no
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL voted no
- William Henry Forney D-AL voted no
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR voted no
- Horace Davis R-CA voted yes
- Horace Francis Page R-CA voted yes
- Henry Johnson Brodhead Cummings R-IA voted yes
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA voted yes
- Benoni Stinson Fuller D-IN voted no
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN voted no
- George Augustus Bicknell D-IN voted no
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN voted no
- William Addison Phillips R-KS voted yes
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS voted yes
- Thomas Ryan R-KS voted yes
- John William Caldwell D-KY voted no
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY voted no
- John Blades Clarke D-KY voted no
- Joseph Barton Elam D-LA voted no
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME voted yes
- Charles Clinton Ellsworth R-MI voted yes
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN voted yes
- Jacob Henry Stewart 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
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS voted no
- Thomas Wren R-NV voted yes
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted no
- Charles Brewster Benedict D-NY voted no
- George Washington Patterson R-NY voted yes
- Richard Williams R-OR voted yes
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA voted yes
- Samuel Augustus Bridges D-PA voted no
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC voted no
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX voted no
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX voted no
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI voted yes
- George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI voted yes
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI voted no
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Robert Fulwood Ligon D-AL
- William Willis Garth D-AL
- Lucien Coatsworth Gause D-AR
- Jordan Edgar Cravens O-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- Horace Davis R-CA
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- John King Luttrell D-CA
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO
- James Phelps D-CT
- Levi Warner D-CT
- James Williams D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- William Bennett Fleming D-GA
- William Ephraim Smith D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- Milton Anthony Candler D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- William Harrell Felton O-GA
- Hiram Parks Bell D-GA
- Henry Johnson Brodhead Cummings R-IA
- Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA
- Carter Henry Harrison D-IL
- Robert McCarty Knapp D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Hartzell D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- William Addison Phillips R-KS
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Andrew Rechmond Boone D-KY
- James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Milton Jameson Durham D-KY
- Thomas Turner D-KY
- Joseph Hayes Acklen D-LA
- John Smith Young D-LA
- Benjamin Dean D-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Daniel Maynadier Henry D-MD
- Charles Boyle Roberts D-MD
- William Kimmel D-MD
- Thomas Swann D-MD
- Eli Jones Henkle D-MD
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME
- Charles Clinton Ellsworth R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Jacob Henry Stewart R-MN
- Anthony Friday Ittner R-MO
- Robert Anthony Hatcher D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO
- Benjamin Joseph Franklin D-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- John Montgomery Glover D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers D-MS
- 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
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Frank Jones D-NH
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Alvah Augustus Clark D-NJ
- Augustus William Cutler D-NJ
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- Thomas Wren R-NV
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Anthony Eickhoff D-NY
- Fernando Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY
- Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY
- George Washington Patterson R-NY
- 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
- Richard Williams R-OR
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Hiester Clymer D-PA
- Francis Dolan Collins D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA
- Jacob Turney D-PA
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- 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
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX
- Richard Lee Turberville Beale D-VA
- John Goode Jr. D-VA
- Gilbert Carlton Walker D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Thomas Harris D-VA
- Eppa Hunton D-VA
- Auburn Lorenzo Pridemore D-VA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI
- William Pitt Lynde D-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- Benjamin Franklin Martin D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Jeremiah Norman Williams D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- William Ferguson Slemons D-AR
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Joseph Champlin Stone R-IA
- Theodore Weld Burdick R-IA
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering R-IA
- Rush Clark R-IA
- Ezekiel Silas Sampson 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
- Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-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
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- James La Fayette Evans R-IN
- Andrew Holman Hamilton D-IN
- John William Caldwell D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- John Blades Clarke D-KY
- Joseph Barton Elam D-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-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
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Llewellyn Powers 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
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Horace Burton Strait 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
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Thomas Jefferson Majors R-NE
- James Frankland Briggs R-NH
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Clement Hall Sinnickson R-NJ
- John Howard Pugh R-NJ
- Thomas Baldwin Peddie R-NJ
- Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Martin Ingham Townsend 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
- William Henry Baker R-NY
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY
- John Newton Hungerford R-NY
- Charles Brewster Benedict D-NY
- 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
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley 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
- Russell Errett R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA
- Harry White R-PA
- John McCandless Thompson R-PA
- Benjamin Tucker Eames R-RI
- Joseph Hayne Rainey R-SC
- Richard Harvey Cain R-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- Dudley Chase Denison R-VT
- George Whitman Hendee R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Gabriel Bouck D-WI
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
Did not vote
- Peter Dinwiddie Wigginton D-CA
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- George Marcellus Landers D-CT
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Julian Hartridge D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Hiram Price R-IA
- Lorenzo Brentano R-IL
- Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Michael Doherty White R-IN
- John Harris Baker R-IN
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- John Edwards Leonard R-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- Walbridge Abner Field R-MA
- Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA
- William Walsh D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Alpheus Starkey Williams D-MI
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Jesse Johnson Yeates D-NC
- Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC
- Frank Welch R-NE
- James Way Covert D-NY
- William Davis Veeder D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY
- George Monroe Beebe D-NY
- John Mosher Bailey R-NY
- Terence John Quinn D-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- John Henry Camp R-NY
- Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY
- Milton Sayler D-OH
- Mills Gardner R-OH
- Jacob Dolson Cox R-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- Chapman Freeman R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Hendrick Bradley Wright D-PA
- John Weinland Killinger R-PA
- William Shearer Stenger D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Latimer Whipple Ballou R-RI
- James Henry Randolph R-TN
- Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh R-TN
- Haywood Yancey Riddle D-TN
- Gustave Schleicher D-TX
- Beverly Browne Douglas D-VA
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
Other votes
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