House roll call 177 · 48th Congress · Jul 3, 1884
To adjourn, in order to prevent call of the house and suspend proceedings, made during debate on H.R. 5667 (p. 6001-1)
On Jul 3, 1884, the House voted 36–138 (HR 5667). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 33–63, Republicans 2–69, Others 1–5, Independents 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 35 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
- 36
- No
- 138
- Did not vote
- 165
- Date
- Jul 3, 1884
By party
- Democrats33 yes · 63 no · 105 didn’t vote
- Republicans2 yes · 69 no · 53 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 5 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Calvin Oates D-AL voted yes
- Thomas Williams D-AL voted yes
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL voted yes
- William Henry Forney D-AL voted yes
- Luke Pryor D-AL voted yes
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR voted yes
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR voted yes
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT voted yes
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE voted yes
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA voted yes
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA voted yes
- James Franklin Clay D-KY voted yes
- John Edward Halsell D-KY voted yes
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY voted yes
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD voted yes
- Herschel Harrison Hatch R-MI voted yes
- Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO voted yes
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS voted yes
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC voted yes
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC voted yes
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC voted yes
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY voted yes
- John Joseph Adams D-NY voted yes
- Francis Beattie Brewer R-NY voted yes
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN voted yes
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN voted yes
- Richard Warner D-TN voted yes
- John May Taylor D-TN voted yes
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN voted yes
- Charles Stewart D-TX voted yes
- James Henry Jones D-TX voted yes
- James Francis Miller D-TX voted yes
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX voted yes
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA voted yes
- Joseph Rankin D-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Thomas Williams D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- Oscar Turner O-KY
- James Franklin Clay D-KY
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD
- Herschel Harrison Hatch R-MI
- Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- Francis Beattie Brewer R-NY
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Richard Warner D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- James Henry Jones D-TX
- James Francis Miller D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- William Starke Rosecrans D-CA
- James Herbert Budd D-CA
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- Charles Allen Sumner D-CA
- John Raglan Glascock D-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Luman Hamlin Weller O-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- John Frederick Finerty O-IL
- George Royal Davis R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- William Cullen R-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- William Eastin English D-IN
- John Edward Lamb D-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Wood D-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- William Wirt Culbertson R-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney 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
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- Edward Samuel Lacey R-MI
- George Lewis Yaple D-MI
- Julius Houseman D-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Cosgrove D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- James Ronald Chalmers I-MS
- Elza Jeffords R-MS
- Clement Dowd D-NC
- Tyre York O-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE
- Ossian Ray R-NH
- Thomas Merrill Ferrell D-NJ
- John Kean R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- John Hardy D-NY
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- Charles Rufus Skinner R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY
- John Fassett Follett D-OH
- Isaac M. Jordan D-OH
- Robert Maynard Murray D-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- James Sidney Robinson R-OH
- Alphonso Hart R-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Jonathan Hasson Wallace D-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Melvin Clark George R-OR
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Daniel Ward Connolly D-PA
- George Adams Post D-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- William Addison Duncan D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA
- Samuel Myron Brainerd R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Harry Libbey O-VA
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- John Winans D-WI
- Daniel Hadley Sumner D-WI
- Burr W. Jones D-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- George Henry Craig R-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Pleasant Britton Tully D-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- John Calhoun Nicholls D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp 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
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- Thomas Hardeman Jr. D-GA
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- Hiram Ypsilanti Smith R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- William Henry Mills Pusey D-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Stanton Judkins Peelle R-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively O-IN
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Carleton Hunt D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Edward Taylor Lewis D-LA
- 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
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Hart Benton Holton R-MD
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI
- Edward Breitung R-MI
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- Alexander Graves D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- James Overton Broadhead D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Robert Washington Fyan D-MO
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Henry Smith Van Eaton D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- John Hart Brewer R-NJ
- Benjamin Franklin Howey R-NJ
- William Henry Frederick Fiedler D-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- William Dorsheimer D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- Edward Wemple D-NY
- George Washington Ray R-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Robert Smith Stevens D-NY
- William Findlay Rogers D-NY
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- William David Hill D-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- John Watts Mccormick R-OH
- George Leroy Converse D-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- David Raymond Paige D-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm O-PA
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- John Denniston Patton D-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Mortimer Fitzland Elliott D-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Bratton D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- Thomas Peck Ochiltree I-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- George Tankard Garrison D-VA
- Robert Murphy Mayo O-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Benjamin Stephen Hooper O-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Henry Bowen O-VA
- John Sergeant Wise O-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Gilbert Motier Woodward D-WI
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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