House roll call 319 · 47th Congress · Feb 26, 1883
To adjourn, made during debate on a resolution providing that during the rest of the session a majority vote may at any time suspend the rules in order to consi
On Feb 26, 1883, the House voted 81–174. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–138, Democrats 80–29, Others 1–7. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 29 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
- 81
- No
- 174
- Did not vote
- 50
- Date
- Feb 26, 1883
By party
- Democrats80 yes · 29 no · 27 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 7 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 138 no · 17 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Calvin Oates D-AL voted no
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL voted no
- James Phelps D-CT voted no
- James Washington Singleton D-IL voted no
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN voted no
- William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN voted no
- Walpole Gillespie Colerick D-IN voted no
- Leopold Morse D-MA voted no
- George Washington Covington D-MD voted no
- Andrew Grant Chapman D-MD voted no
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS voted no
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ voted no
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted no
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY voted no
- Lewis Beach D-NY voted no
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH voted no
- George Leroy Converse D-OH voted no
- George Washington Geddes D-OH voted no
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA voted no
- William Mutchler D-PA voted no
- Robert Klotz D-PA voted no
- Frank Eckels Beltzhoover D-PA voted no
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA voted no
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN voted no
- Charles Bryson Simonton D-TN voted no
- David Browning Culberson D-TX voted no
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI voted no
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- Thomas Williams 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
- William Starke Rosecrans D-CA
- Campbell Polson Berry D-CA
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-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
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton D-IL
- William Andrew Jackson Sparks D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- Thomas Reed Cobb 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
- Randall Lee Gibson D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Edward White Robertson D-LA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD
- Robert Milligan Mclane D-MD
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-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
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Clement Dowd D-NC
- Robert Franklin Armfield D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Henry Schenck Harris D-NJ
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Philip Henry Dugro D-NY
- John Hardy D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- Michael Nicholas Nolan D-NY
- Jonathan Scoville D-NY
- John Peter Leedom D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Morgan Ringland Wise D-PA
- John Smythe Richardson D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Richard Warner D-TN
- John Ford House D-TN
- John DeWitt Clinton Atkins D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- George Tankard Garrison D-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Abram Fulkerson O-VA
- John Blair Hoge D-WV
- John Edward Kenna D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- Horace Francis Page R-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- John Ransom Buck R-CT
- James Phelps D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Frederick Miles R-CT
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- 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
- George Royal Davis R-IL
- Charles Benjamin Farwell R-IL
- John Crocker Sherwin R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- William Cullen R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- John Henry Lewis R-IL
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL
- James Washington Singleton D-IL
- Dietrich Conrad Smith R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- William Heilman R-IN
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Stanton Judkins Peelle R-IN
- Robert Bruce Fraser Peirce R-IN
- Charles Taylor Doxey R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- Walpole Gillespie Colerick D-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Chester Bidwell Darrall R-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
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- William Augustus Russell R-MA
- John Wilson Candler R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Amasa Norcross R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- George Washington Covington D-MD
- Andrew Grant Chapman D-MD
- Milton George Urner R-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Stephen Decatur Lindsey R-ME
- George Washington Ladd 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
- Oliver Lyman Spaulding R-MI
- John Tyler Rich R-MI
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- James Henry Mclean R-MO
- Ira Sherwin Haseltine O-MO
- Theron Moses Rice O-MO
- Robert Thompson Van Horn R-MO
- Nicholas Ford O-MO
- Joseph Henry Burrows O-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- John Roy Lynch R-MS
- Orlando Hubbs R-NC
- Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE
- 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
- Augustus Albert Hardenbergh D-NJ
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Anson George Mccook R-NY
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- Walter Abbott Wood R-NY
- John Hammond R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- George West R-NY
- Ferris Jacobs Jr. R-NY
- Cyrus Dan Prescott R-NY
- Joseph Mason R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight R-NY
- David Plunket Richardson R-NY
- John Van Voorhis R-NY
- Henry Van Aernam R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- Thomas Lowry Young R-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- Emanuel Shultz R-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- James Monroe Ritchie R-OH
- James Sidney Robinson R-OH
- John Birchard Rice R-OH
- George Leroy Converse D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Rufus Dawes R-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Addison S. Mcclure R-OH
- Amos Townsend R-OH
- Melvin Clark George R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-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
- Cornelius Comegys Jadwin R-PA
- Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Horatio Gates Fisher R-PA
- Frank Eckels Beltzhoover D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Russell Errett R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- William Shadrack Shallenberger R-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
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Charles Bryson Simonton D-TN
- William Robert Moore R-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- George Washington Jones O-TX
- John Frederick Dezendorf R-VA
- Joseph Jorgensen R-VA
- Charles Herbert Joyce R-VT
- James Manning Tyler R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Charles Grandison Williams R-WI
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- George Cochrane Hazelton R-WI
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Herman Leon Humphrey R-WI
- Thaddeus Coleman Pound R-WI
- Benjamin Wilson D-WV
Did not vote
- Thomas Hord Herndon D-AL
- William Manning Lowe O-AL
- Romualdo Pacheco R-CA
- Edward Livingston Martin D-DE
- Jesse Johnson Finley D-FL
- George Robison Black D-GA
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens D-GA
- Emory Speer O-GA
- William George Thompson R-IA
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- Robert Moffett Allison Hawk R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Godlove Stein Orth R-IN
- Mark Lindsey De Motte R-IN
- James Andrew Mckenzie D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Thompson Henry Murch O-ME
- Jay Abel Hubbell R-MI
- Thomas Allen D-MO
- Gustavus Sessinghaus R-MO
- Richard Graham Frost D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- James Ronald Chalmers D-MS
- Louis Charles Latham D-NC
- John Williams Shackelford D-NC
- Miles Ross D-NJ
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- John Hyatt Smith I-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Benjamin Wood D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Thomas Cornell R-NY
- Charles Rufus Skinner R-NY
- John Henry Camp R-NY
- Richard Crowley R-NY
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- Henry Safford Neal R-OH
- Gibson Atherton D-OH
- Jonathan Taylor Updegraff R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA
- James Mosgrove O-PA
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- Christopher Columbus Upson D-TX
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Paul O-VA
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
Other votes
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