To pass H.R. 2478. H.R. 2478 is a substitute for H.R. 673 of the same title.

On Jan 25, 1878, the House voted 174–79 (HR 2478). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 81–46, Democrats 91–33, Others 2–0. 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: 174
No: 79
Did not vote: 49
Date: Jan 25, 1878

By party

Democrats91 yes · 33 no · 34 didn’t vote
Others2 yes · 0 no
Republicans81 yes · 46 no · 15 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL voted no
John King Luttrell D-CA voted no
John Turner Wait R-CT voted no
Levi Warner D-CT voted no
Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL voted no
William Ephraim Smith D-GA voted no
Joseph Champlin Stone R-IA voted no
Theodore Weld Burdick R-IA voted no
Ezekiel Silas Sampson R-IA voted no
Samuel Addison Oliver R-IA voted no
William Aldrich R-IL voted no
William Lathrop R-IL voted no
Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted no
Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL voted no
Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL voted no
Thomas Alexander Boyd R-IL voted no
William McKendree Springer D-IL voted no
Thomas Foster Tipton R-IL voted no
John Rice Eden D-IL voted no
William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL voted no
William Ralls Morrison D-IL voted no
William Hartzell D-IL voted no
George Augustus Bicknell D-IN voted no
John Hanna R-IN voted no
Thomas Ryan R-KS voted no
James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY voted no
James Proctor Knott D-KY voted no
Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY voted no
Thomas Turner D-KY voted no
John Edwards Leonard R-LA voted no
Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA voted no
Benjamin Franklin Butler R-MA voted no
William Claflin R-MA voted no
William Whitney Rice R-MA voted no
George Dexter Robinson R-MA voted no
William Walsh D-MD voted no
Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME voted no
Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME voted no
Llewellyn Powers R-ME voted no
Eugene Hale R-ME voted no
Edwin William Keightley R-MI voted no
John Wesley Stone R-MI voted no
Charles Clinton Ellsworth R-MI voted no
Thomas Theodore Crittenden D-MO voted no
Charles Edward Hooker D-MS voted no
Curtis Hooks Brogden R-NC voted no
James Frankland Briggs R-NH voted no
Henry William Blair R-NH voted no
Augustus William Cutler D-NJ voted no
Thomas Wren R-NV voted no
William Davis Veeder D-NY voted no
Simeon Baldwin Chittenden R-NY voted no
Nicholas Muller D-NY voted no
Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted no
Anthony Eickhoff D-NY voted no
Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY voted no
Clarkson Nott Potter D-NY voted no
George Monroe Beebe D-NY voted no
Stephen Lorenzo Mayham D-NY voted no
Martin Ingham Townsend R-NY voted no
Frank Hiscock R-NY voted no
Elbridge Gerry Lapham R-NY voted no
Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY voted no
Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH voted no
Lorenzo Danford R-OH voted no
Richard Williams R-OR voted no
Charles O'Neill R-PA voted no
Levi Maish D-PA voted no
Levi Augustus Mackey D-PA voted no
Harry White R-PA voted no
Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA voted no
James Henry Randolph R-TN voted no
William Parker Caldwell D-TN voted no
De Witt Clinton Giddings D-TX voted no
Charles Grandison Williams R-WI voted no
George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI voted no
William Pitt Lynde D-WI voted no
Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI voted no
Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI 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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