To suspend the rules and pass H.R. 6018, a bill amending section 4919 of the revised statutes relating to the recovery of damages for the infringement of patent

On May 15, 1882, the House voted 155–49 (HR 6018). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 75–33, Democrats 73–15, Others 7–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 48 members voted against their own party.

During the 47th Congress (1881–1882), Chester A. Arthur was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 155
No: 49
Did not vote: 101
Date: May 15, 1882

By party

Democrats73 yes · 15 no · 48 didn’t vote
Others7 yes · 1 no · 5 didn’t vote
Republicans75 yes · 33 no · 47 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Charles Miller Shelley D-AL voted no
John Turner Wait R-CT voted no
Frederick Miles R-CT voted no
Hugh Buchanan D-GA voted no
Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA voted no
Judson Claudius Clements D-GA voted no
George Royal Davis R-IL voted no
Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL voted no
Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA voted no
William Wallace Crapo R-MA voted no
Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA voted no
Eben Francis Stone R-MA voted no
William Whitney Rice R-MA voted no
George Dexter Robinson R-MA voted no
Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD voted no
Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME voted no
John Roy Lynch R-MS voted no
Clement Dowd D-NC voted no
James Frankland Briggs R-NH voted no
John Hart Brewer R-NJ voted no
Henry Schenck Harris D-NJ voted no
Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted no
Philip Henry Dugro D-NY voted no
Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY voted no
John Henry Ketcham R-NY voted no
John Hammond R-NY voted no
George West R-NY voted no
Frank Hiscock R-NY voted no
Richard Crowley R-NY voted no
John Birchard Rice R-OH voted no
Amos Townsend R-OH voted no
Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA voted no
Charles O'Neill R-PA voted no
Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA voted no
William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted no
William Ward R-PA voted no
Daniel Ermentrout D-PA voted no
Abraham Herr Smith R-PA voted no
Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA voted no
Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker R-PA voted no
Russell Errett R-PA voted no
Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA voted no
Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI voted no
John Hamilton Evins D-SC voted no
George Dionysius Tillman D-SC voted no
William Robert Moore R-TN voted no
Joseph Jorgensen R-VA voted no
James Manning Tyler R-VT 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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