House roll call 104 · 48th Congress · May 27, 1884
To pass h.j.r. 255 (23 stat 273-june 07, 1884), a bill providing for further appropriation of $100,000 for sufferers of mississippi river flood. (p. 4566-2)
On May 27, 1884, the House voted 120–77 (HJR 255). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 71–62, Republicans 46–13, Others 3–3, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 75 members voted against their own party.
During the 48th Congress (1883–1884), Chester A. Arthur was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 120
- No
- 77
- Did not vote
- 140
- Date
- May 27, 1884
By party
- Democrats71 yes · 62 no · 68 didn’t vote
- Republicans46 yes · 13 no · 65 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 3 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Calvin Oates D-AL voted no
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL voted no
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted no
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT voted no
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT voted no
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE voted no
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL voted no
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA voted no
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA voted no
- Hugh Buchanan D-GA voted no
- James Henderson Blount D-GA voted no
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA voted no
- Seaborn Reese D-GA voted no
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA voted no
- Thomas Hardeman Jr. D-GA voted no
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL voted no
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL voted no
- William McKendree Springer D-IL voted no
- Aaron Shaw D-IL voted no
- Robert Lowry D-IN voted no
- John Edward Halsell D-KY voted no
- John Davis Long R-MA voted no
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA voted no
- Leopold Morse D-MA voted no
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI voted no
- George Lewis Yaple D-MI voted no
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI voted no
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN voted no
- Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO voted no
- John Cosgrove D-MO voted no
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO voted no
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO voted no
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC voted no
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC voted no
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE voted no
- Thomas Merrill Ferrell D-NJ voted no
- William Henry Frederick Fiedler D-NJ voted no
- William Mcadoo D-NJ voted no
- Felix Campbell D-NY voted no
- John Joseph Adams D-NY voted no
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY voted no
- Lewis Beach D-NY voted no
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY voted no
- Edward Wemple D-NY voted no
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY voted no
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY voted no
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY voted no
- Robert Maynard Murray D-OH voted no
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH voted no
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH voted no
- George Washington Geddes D-OH voted no
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA voted no
- William Mutchler D-PA voted no
- Daniel Ward Connolly D-PA voted no
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA voted no
- George Adams Post D-PA voted no
- William Wallace Brown R-PA voted no
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA voted no
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA voted no
- John Denniston Patton D-PA voted no
- Mortimer Fitzland Elliott D-PA voted no
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI voted no
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC voted no
- John James Hemphill D-SC voted no
- Richard Warner D-TN voted no
- Charles Stewart D-TX voted no
- David Browning Culberson D-TX voted no
- James Francis Miller D-TX voted no
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX voted no
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA voted no
- Daniel Hadley Sumner D-WI voted no
- Burr W. Jones D-WI voted no
- Gilbert Motier Woodward D-WI voted no
- William Thompson Price R-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- Thomas Williams D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- Charles Allen Sumner D-CA
- John Raglan Glascock D-CA
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- John Calhoun Nicholls D-GA
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Luman Hamlin Weller O-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- William Henry Mills Pusey D-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- George Royal Davis R-IL
- William Cullen R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- John Edward Lamb D-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Carleton Hunt D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Edward Taylor Lewis D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- George Washington Covington D-MD
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Julius Houseman D-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- Alexander Graves D-MO
- James Overton Broadhead D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Robert Washington Fyan D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Elza Jeffords R-MS
- Henry Smith Van Eaton D-MS
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- James Laird R-NE
- Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE
- John Hart Brewer R-NJ
- Benjamin Franklin Howey R-NJ
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- William Dorsheimer D-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY
- William Findlay Rogers D-NY
- Francis Beattie Brewer R-NY
- John Fassett Follett D-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- James Sidney Robinson R-OH
- Alphonso Hart R-OH
- George Leroy Converse D-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Melvin Clark George R-OR
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- James Henry Jones D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- Thomas Peck Ochiltree I-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- George Tankard Garrison D-VA
- Harry Libbey O-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- John Sergeant Wise O-VA
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Hugh Buchanan D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- Thomas Hardeman Jr. D-GA
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- Oscar Turner O-KY
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Theodore Lyman O-MA
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- George Lewis Yaple D-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO
- John Cosgrove D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- Tyre York O-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- Thomas Merrill Ferrell D-NJ
- William Henry Frederick Fiedler D-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY
- Edward Wemple D-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- Robert Maynard Murray D-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Daniel Ward Connolly D-PA
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA
- George Adams Post D-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA
- John Denniston Patton D-PA
- Mortimer Fitzland Elliott D-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- Richard Warner D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Francis Miller D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Daniel Hadley Sumner D-WI
- Burr W. Jones D-WI
- Gilbert Motier Woodward D-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- George Henry Craig R-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- William Starke Rosecrans D-CA
- James Herbert Budd D-CA
- Pleasant Britton Tully D-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- Hiram Ypsilanti Smith R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- John Frederick Finerty O-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Stanton Judkins Peelle R-IN
- William Eastin English D-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Wood D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively O-IN
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- James Franklin Clay D-KY
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- William Wirt Culbertson R-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- William Augustus Russell R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Hart Benton Holton R-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Edward Samuel Lacey R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Herschel Harrison Hatch R-MI
- Edward Breitung R-MI
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO
- James Ronald Chalmers I-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Clement Dowd D-NC
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- Ossian Ray R-NH
- John Kean R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- John Hardy D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- George Washington Ray R-NY
- Charles Rufus Skinner R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Robert Smith Stevens D-NY
- Isaac M. Jordan D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- John Watts Mccormick R-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Jonathan Hasson Wallace D-OH
- David Raymond Paige D-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm O-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- William Addison Duncan D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- Samuel Myron Brainerd R-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- John Bratton D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Robert Murphy Mayo O-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Benjamin Stephen Hooper O-VA
- Henry Bowen O-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- John Winans D-WI
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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