To adjourn and thereby delay action on H.R. 805.

On Nov 1, 1877, the House voted 29–213 (HR 805). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 7–114, Republicans 22–97, Others 0–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 29 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: 29
No: 213
Did not vote: 60
Date: Nov 1, 1877

By party

Democrats7 yes · 114 no · 37 didn’t vote
Others0 yes · 2 no
Republicans22 yes · 97 no · 23 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Horace Davis R-CA voted yes
Horace Francis Page R-CA voted yes
Theodore Weld Burdick R-IA voted yes
Horatio Chapin Burchard R-IL voted yes
Greenbury Lafayette Fort R-IL voted yes
Leonidas Sexton R-IN voted yes
William Claflin R-MA voted yes
William Whitney Rice R-MA voted yes
Edwin Willits R-MI voted yes
Jonas Hartzell Mcgowan R-MI voted yes
Charles Clinton Ellsworth R-MI voted yes
Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI voted yes
Nathan Cole R-MO voted yes
James Frankland Briggs R-NH voted yes
Henry William Blair R-NH voted yes
Miles Ross D-NJ voted yes
Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted yes
Anthony Eickhoff D-NY voted yes
Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY voted yes
Benjamin Albertson Willis D-NY voted yes
Solomon Bundy R-NY voted yes
Elizur Kirke Hart D-NY voted yes
Jacob Dolson Cox R-OH voted yes
John Sills Jones R-OH voted yes
Charles Foster R-OH voted yes
James Monroe R-OH voted yes
Russell Errett R-PA voted yes
Gustave Schleicher D-TX voted yes
Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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