House roll call 116 · 48th Congress · Jun 5, 1884
To adjourn because of the apparent lack of a quorum, made during consideration of H.R. 5687. (p. 4836-1)
On Jun 5, 1884, the House voted 66–101 (HR 5682). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 29–89, Republicans 36–9, Others 1–3. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 38 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
- 66
- No
- 101
- Did not vote
- 172
- Date
- Jun 5, 1884
By party
- Democrats29 yes · 89 no · 83 didn’t vote
- Republicans36 yes · 9 no · 79 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 3 no · 8 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Taylor Jones D-AL voted yes
- William Calvin Oates D-AL voted yes
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL voted yes
- William Henry Forney D-AL voted yes
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA voted no
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL voted no
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL voted yes
- John Daugherty White R-KY voted no
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY voted yes
- Carleton Hunt D-LA voted yes
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA voted yes
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA voted yes
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD voted yes
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD voted no
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI voted yes
- Milo White R-MN voted no
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC voted yes
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC voted yes
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY voted yes
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY voted yes
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY voted yes
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY voted no
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY voted yes
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY voted yes
- Robert Maynard Murray D-OH voted yes
- Jonathan Hasson Wallace D-OH voted yes
- Melvin Clark George R-OR voted no
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA voted no
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA voted no
- Mortimer Fitzland Elliott D-PA voted yes
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC voted yes
- George William Dargan D-SC voted yes
- David Browning Culberson D-TX voted yes
- George Tankard Garrison D-VA voted yes
- George Douglas Wise D-VA voted yes
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA voted yes
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA voted yes
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Carleton Hunt D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- Theodore Lyman O-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Ossian Ray R-NH
- Benjamin Franklin Howey R-NJ
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY
- Francis Beattie Brewer R-NY
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- Robert Maynard Murray D-OH
- John Watts Mccormick R-OH
- Jonathan Hasson Wallace D-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Samuel Myron Brainerd R-PA
- Mortimer Fitzland Elliott D-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- George Tankard Garrison D-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Thomas Williams D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- Pleasant Britton Tully D-CA
- Charles Allen Sumner D-CA
- John Raglan Glascock D-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- John Calhoun Nicholls D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Hugh Buchanan D-GA
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- Thomas Hardeman Jr. D-GA
- Luman Hamlin Weller O-IA
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- William Eastin English D-IN
- John Edward Lamb D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Wood D-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- Oscar Turner O-KY
- James Franklin Clay D-KY
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Edward Taylor Lewis D-LA
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- George Lewis Yaple D-MI
- Julius Houseman D-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Cosgrove D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Robert Washington Fyan D-MO
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Clement Dowd D-NC
- Tyre York O-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- Thomas Merrill Ferrell D-NJ
- William Henry Frederick Fiedler D-NJ
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV
- Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY
- Edward Wemple D-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- William Findlay Rogers D-NY
- John Fassett Follett D-OH
- Isaac M. Jordan D-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Melvin Clark George R-OR
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Daniel Ward Connolly D-PA
- George Adams Post D-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Richard Warner 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
- James Francis Miller D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Burr W. Jones D-WI
Did not vote
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- George Henry Craig R-AL
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- William Starke Rosecrans D-CA
- James Herbert Budd D-CA
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- Hiram Ypsilanti Smith R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- William Henry Mills Pusey D-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- John Frederick Finerty O-IL
- George Royal Davis R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- William Cullen R-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Stanton Judkins Peelle R-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively O-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- William Wirt Culbertson R-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- William Augustus Russell R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- George Washington Covington D-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Hart Benton Holton 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
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI
- Herschel Harrison Hatch R-MI
- Edward Breitung R-MI
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- Alexander Graves D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- James Overton Broadhead D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers I-MS
- Elza Jeffords R-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Henry Smith Van Eaton D-MS
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- John Hart Brewer R-NJ
- John Kean R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- William Dorsheimer D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- John Hardy D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- George Washington Ray R-NY
- Charles Rufus Skinner R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Robert Smith Stevens D-NY
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- James Sidney Robinson R-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- Alphonso Hart R-OH
- George Leroy Converse D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- David Raymond Paige D-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm O-PA
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- William Addison Duncan D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- John Denniston Patton D-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- John Bratton D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Thomas Peck Ochiltree I-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Robert Murphy Mayo O-VA
- Harry Libbey O-VA
- Benjamin Stephen Hooper O-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Henry Bowen O-VA
- John Sergeant Wise O-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- John Winans D-WI
- Daniel Hadley Sumner D-WI
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Gilbert Motier Woodward D-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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