House roll call 294 · 47th Congress · Jan 25, 1883
To agree to an amendment to H.R. 7314, providing that chiefs of bureaus shall receive no additional rank or pay over and above their regular rank and pay in the
On Jan 25, 1883, the House voted 84–118 (HR 7314). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 14–93, Democrats 67–20, Others 3–5. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 34 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
- 84
- No
- 118
- Did not vote
- 103
- Date
- Jan 25, 1883
By party
- Democrats67 yes · 20 no · 49 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 5 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Republicans14 yes · 93 no · 48 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL voted no
- Sewall Spaulding Farwell R-IA voted yes
- Thomas Updegraff R-IA voted yes
- William George Thompson R-IA voted yes
- Marsena Edgar Cutts R-IA voted yes
- William Cullen R-IL voted yes
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL voted yes
- John Henry Lewis R-IL voted yes
- James Washington Singleton D-IL voted no
- John Robert Thomas R-IL voted yes
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA voted no
- Leopold Morse D-MA voted no
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD voted no
- Robert Milligan Mclane D-MD voted no
- Andrew Grant Chapman D-MD voted no
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN voted yes
- William Drew Washburn R-MN voted yes
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY voted no
- John Hardy D-NY voted no
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY voted no
- Lewis Beach D-NY voted no
- Gibson Atherton D-OH voted no
- Rufus Dawes R-OH voted yes
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA voted no
- William Mutchler D-PA voted no
- Robert Klotz D-PA voted no
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA voted yes
- Morgan Ringland Wise D-PA voted no
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN voted no
- Christopher Columbus Upson D-TX voted no
- George Tankard Garrison D-VA voted no
- William Wallace Grout R-VT voted yes
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI voted yes
- John Edward Kenna D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Jordan Edgar Cravens D-AR
- Thomas Montague Gunter D-AR
- Campbell Polson Berry D-CA
- 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
- Sewall Spaulding Farwell R-IA
- Thomas Updegraff R-IA
- William George Thompson R-IA
- Marsena Edgar Cutts R-IA
- William Cullen R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- John Henry Lewis R-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
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Oscar Turner D-KY
- John William Caldwell D-KY
- James Proctor Knott D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY
- Elijah Conner Phister D-KY
- John Floyd King D-LA
- George Washington Covington D-MD
- George Washington Ladd O-ME
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO
- Ira Sherwin Haseltine O-MO
- John Bullock Clark Jr. D-MO
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Vannoy Hartrog (Van) Manning D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Clement Dowd D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Philip Henry Dugro D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- John Peter Leedom D-OH
- George Leroy Converse D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Rufus Dawes R-OH
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Frank Eckels Beltzhoover D-PA
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Richard Warner D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- Charles Bryson Simonton D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- George Washington Jones O-TX
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- John Ransom Buck R-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Frederick Miles R-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Emory Speer O-GA
- Nathaniel Cobb Deering R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- Cyrus Clay Carpenter R-IA
- William Aldrich R-IL
- George Royal Davis R-IL
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- John Crocker Sherwin R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL
- James Washington Singleton D-IL
- Dietrich Conrad Smith R-IL
- William Heilman R-IN
- Stanton Judkins Peelle R-IN
- Robert Bruce Fraser Peirce R-IN
- Mark Lindsey De Motte R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- William Wallace Crapo R-MA
- Benjamin Winslow Harris R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Selwyn Zadock Bowman R-MA
- William Augustus Russell R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Robert Milligan Mclane D-MD
- Andrew Grant Chapman D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-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
- Oliver Lyman Spaulding R-MI
- John Tyler Rich R-MI
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI
- James Henry Mclean R-MO
- Theron Moses Rice O-MO
- Robert Thompson Van Horn R-MO
- Nicholas Ford O-MO
- Joseph Henry Burrows O-MO
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Joshua Gilman Hall R-NH
- James Frankland Briggs R-NH
- Ossian Ray R-NH
- George Maxwell Robeson R-NJ
- John Hart Brewer R-NJ
- John Hill R-NJ
- Phineas Jones R-NJ
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- John Hardy D-NY
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- Ferris Jacobs Jr. R-NY
- Charles Rufus Skinner R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- David Plunket Richardson R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- Thomas Lowry Young R-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- Emanuel Shultz R-OH
- James Monroe Ritchie R-OH
- James Sidney Robinson R-OH
- Henry Safford Neal R-OH
- Gibson Atherton D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Amos Townsend R-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- William Ward R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Robert Klotz D-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA
- Morgan Ringland Wise D-PA
- Russell Errett R-PA
- William Shadrack Shallenberger R-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey R-SC
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- William Robert Moore R-TN
- Christopher Columbus Upson D-TX
- George Tankard Garrison D-VA
- John Frederick Dezendorf R-VA
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- Abram Fulkerson O-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- James Manning Tyler R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
Did not vote
- Thomas Hord Herndon D-AL
- Thomas Williams D-AL
- William Manning Lowe O-AL
- William Starke Rosecrans D-CA
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- James Phelps D-CT
- Edward Livingston Martin D-DE
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- George Robison Black D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Robert Moffett Allison Hawk R-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- 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
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- John Wilson Candler R-MA
- Amasa Norcross R-MA
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD
- Milton George Urner R-MD
- Thompson Henry Murch O-ME
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Thomas Allen D-MO
- Gustavus Sessinghaus R-MO
- Richard Graham Frost D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers D-MS
- Louis Charles Latham D-NC
- Orlando Hubbs R-NC
- John Williams Shackelford D-NC
- Robert Franklin Armfield D-NC
- Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- Henry Schenck Harris D-NJ
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- John Hyatt Smith I-NY
- Benjamin Wood D-NY
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Thomas Cornell R-NY
- Michael Nicholas Nolan D-NY
- Walter Abbott Wood R-NY
- John Hammond R-NY
- George West R-NY
- Cyrus Dan Prescott R-NY
- Joseph Mason R-NY
- John Henry Camp R-NY
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY
- John Van Voorhis R-NY
- Richard Crowley R-NY
- Jonathan Scoville D-NY
- Henry Van Aernam R-NY
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- John Birchard Rice R-OH
- Jonathan Taylor Updegraff R-OH
- Addison S. Mcclure R-OH
- Melvin Clark George R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- William Godshalk R-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm O-PA
- Cornelius Comegys Jadwin R-PA
- Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker R-PA
- Horatio Gates Fisher R-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- James Mosgrove O-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- John Smythe Richardson D-SC
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- John Ford House D-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Paul O-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
- John Blair Hoge D-WV
Other votes
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