House roll call 283 · 47th Congress · Jan 12, 1883
To amend H.R. 7061, by eliminating sections #18, #19, and #20, relating to the subsidy and free ship provisions. (p. 1138-1 & 2, 1139-1, 1147-1)
On Jan 12, 1883, the House voted 159–54 (HR 7061). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 90–26, Democrats 61–29, Others 8–1, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 55 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
- 159
- No
- 54
- Did not vote
- 89
- Date
- Jan 12, 1883
By party
- Democrats61 yes · 29 no · 46 didn’t vote
- Others8 yes · 1 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Republicans90 yes · 26 no · 39 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL voted no
- Horace Francis Page R-CA voted no
- James Phelps D-CT voted no
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA voted no
- Sewall Spaulding Farwell R-IA voted no
- Thomas Updegraff R-IA voted no
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering R-IA voted no
- Marsena Edgar Cutts R-IA voted no
- John Adam Kasson R-IA voted no
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA voted no
- Cyrus Clay Carpenter R-IA voted no
- William Aldrich R-IL voted no
- John Crocker Sherwin R-IL voted no
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL voted no
- Dietrich Conrad Smith R-IL voted no
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted no
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN voted no
- Mark Lindsey De Motte R-IN voted no
- John Floyd King D-LA voted no
- Leopold Morse D-MA voted no
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA voted no
- John Wilson Candler R-MA voted no
- Robert Milligan Mclane D-MD voted no
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN voted no
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO voted no
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO voted no
- Clement Dowd D-NC voted no
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted no
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV voted no
- Perry Belmont D-NY voted no
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY voted no
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted no
- Anson George Mccook R-NY voted no
- John Hardy D-NY voted no
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY voted no
- Lewis Beach D-NY voted no
- Michael Nicholas Nolan D-NY voted no
- Walter Abbott Wood R-NY voted no
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY voted no
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY voted no
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY voted no
- Jonathan Scoville D-NY voted no
- John Peter Leedom D-OH voted no
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC voted no
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC voted no
- Charles Bryson Simonton D-TN voted no
- Christopher Columbus Upson D-TX voted no
- George Tankard Garrison D-VA voted no
- George Douglas Wise D-VA voted no
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA voted no
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA voted no
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA voted no
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI voted no
- Richard William Guenther R-WI voted no
- John Blair Hoge D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Jordan Edgar Cravens D-AR
- Campbell Polson Berry D-CA
- John Ransom Buck R-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Frederick Miles R-CT
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Philip Cook D-GA
- Hugh Buchanan D-GA
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- William George Thompson R-IA
- George Royal Davis R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- William Cullen R-IL
- John Henry Lewis R-IL
- James Washington Singleton D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- William Heilman R-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Stanton Judkins Peelle R-IN
- Robert Bruce Fraser Peirce R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Oscar Turner D-KY
- John William Caldwell D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY
- Elijah Conner Phister D-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Selwyn Zadock Bowman R-MA
- William Augustus Russell R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Amasa Norcross R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- George Washington Covington D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME
- George Washington Ladd O-ME
- Thompson Henry Murch O-ME
- Henry William Lord R-MI
- Edwin Willits R-MI
- Edward Samuel Lacey R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- George Washington Webber R-MI
- John Tyler Rich R-MI
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- James Henry Mclean R-MO
- Richard Graham Frost D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Ira Sherwin Haseltine O-MO
- Theron Moses Rice O-MO
- Robert Thompson Van Horn R-MO
- Nicholas Ford O-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Louis Charles Latham D-NC
- Orlando Hubbs R-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- Robert Franklin Armfield D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Joshua Gilman Hall R-NH
- James Frankland Briggs R-NH
- Ossian Ray R-NH
- John Hill R-NJ
- Phineas Jones R-NJ
- John Hyatt Smith I-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Ferris Jacobs Jr. R-NY
- Charles Rufus Skinner R-NY
- Cyrus Dan Prescott R-NY
- John Van Voorhis R-NY
- Richard Crowley R-NY
- Henry Van Aernam R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- James Monroe Ritchie R-OH
- James Sidney Robinson R-OH
- John Birchard Rice R-OH
- Henry Safford Neal R-OH
- George Leroy Converse D-OH
- Gibson Atherton D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Rufus Dawes R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Addison S. Mcclure R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Amos Townsend R-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- William Ward R-PA
- William Godshalk R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Robert Klotz D-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm O-PA
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA
- Cornelius Comegys Jadwin R-PA
- Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Russell Errett R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA
- James Mosgrove O-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Richard Warner D-TN
- John Ford House D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- William Robert Moore R-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- George Washington Jones O-TX
- John Frederick Dezendorf R-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- James Manning Tyler R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- James Phelps D-CT
- Emory Speer O-GA
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA
- Sewall Spaulding Farwell R-IA
- Thomas Updegraff R-IA
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering R-IA
- Marsena Edgar Cutts R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Cyrus Clay Carpenter R-IA
- William Aldrich R-IL
- John Crocker Sherwin R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Dietrich Conrad Smith R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Mark Lindsey De Motte R-IN
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- John Wilson Candler R-MA
- Robert Milligan Mclane D-MD
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Clement Dowd D-NC
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- John Hardy D-NY
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- Michael Nicholas Nolan D-NY
- Walter Abbott Wood R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY
- Jonathan Scoville D-NY
- John Peter Leedom D-OH
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- Charles Bryson Simonton D-TN
- Christopher Columbus Upson D-TX
- George Tankard Garrison D-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- John Blair Hoge D-WV
Did not vote
- Thomas Hord Herndon D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- Thomas Williams D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- William Manning Lowe O-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- William Starke Rosecrans D-CA
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- Edward Livingston Martin D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- George Robison Black D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- Robert Moffett Allison Hawk R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL
- Charles Taylor Doxey R-IN
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN
- Walpole Gillespie Colerick D-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD
- Andrew Grant Chapman D-MD
- Milton George Urner R-MD
- Oliver Lyman Spaulding R-MI
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- Thomas Allen D-MO
- Gustavus Sessinghaus R-MO
- Joseph Henry Burrows O-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Vannoy Hartrog (Van) Manning D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers D-MS
- John Williams Shackelford D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE
- George Maxwell Robeson R-NJ
- John Hart Brewer R-NJ
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Henry Schenck Harris D-NJ
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- Benjamin Wood D-NY
- Philip Henry Dugro D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- Thomas Cornell R-NY
- John Hammond R-NY
- George West R-NY
- Joseph Mason R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- John Henry Camp R-NY
- David Plunket Richardson R-NY
- Thomas Lowry Young R-OH
- Emanuel Shultz R-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- Jonathan Taylor Updegraff R-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Melvin Clark George R-OR
- Horatio Gates Fisher R-PA
- Frank Eckels Beltzhoover D-PA
- Morgan Ringland Wise D-PA
- John Smythe Richardson D-SC
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- John Paul O-VA
- Abram Fulkerson O-VA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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