House roll call 209 · 48th Congress · Dec 18, 1884
To decide a point of order raised during discussion of H.R. 5461, whether the motion to order the previous question on an amendment and pending section, regulat
On Dec 18, 1884, the House voted 150–88 (HR 5461). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 136–3, Republicans 11–82, Others 3–2, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 14 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
- 150
- No
- 88
- Did not vote
- 101
- Date
- Dec 18, 1884
By party
- Democrats136 yes · 3 no · 62 didn’t vote
- Republicans11 yes · 82 no · 31 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 2 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Herbert Budd D-CA voted no
- James Wilson R-IA voted yes
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA voted yes
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS voted yes
- John Davis Long R-MA voted yes
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA voted yes
- Knute Nelson R-MN voted yes
- Elza Jeffords R-MS voted yes
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE voted yes
- Thomas Merrill Ferrell D-NJ voted no
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY voted no
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA voted yes
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA voted yes
- William Thompson Price R-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- Thomas Williams D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- Pleasant Britton Tully D-CA
- John Raglan Glascock D-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- John Calhoun Nicholls D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner 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
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- William Henry Mills Pusey D-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- William Eastin English D-IN
- John Edward Lamb D-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Wood D-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively O-IN
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Oscar Turner O-KY
- James Franklin Clay D-KY
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Carleton Hunt D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Edward Taylor Lewis D-LA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- Theodore Lyman O-MA
- George Washington Covington D-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- George Lewis Yaple D-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Robert Washington Fyan D-MO
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO
- Elza Jeffords R-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Henry Smith Van Eaton D-MS
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- John Hardy D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY
- Edward Wemple D-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY
- Robert Smith Stevens D-NY
- William Findlay Rogers 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
- William David Hill D-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Jonathan Hasson Wallace D-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- George Adams Post D-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA
- John Denniston Patton D-PA
- Mortimer Fitzland Elliott D-PA
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Bratton D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Richard Warner D-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- 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
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Winans D-WI
- Burr W. Jones D-WI
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- James Herbert Budd D-CA
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Hiram Ypsilanti Smith R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- George Royal Davis R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- William Cullen R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- William Wirt Culbertson R-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- William Augustus Russell R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Edward Samuel Lacey R-MI
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Edward Breitung R-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- James Ronald Chalmers I-MS
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- James Laird R-NE
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- Ossian Ray R-NH
- Thomas Merrill Ferrell D-NJ
- John Hart Brewer R-NJ
- John Kean R-NJ
- Benjamin Franklin Howey R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- George Washington Ray R-NY
- Charles Rufus Skinner R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- Francis Beattie Brewer R-NY
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- James Sidney Robinson R-OH
- Alphonso Hart R-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Melvin Clark George R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm O-PA
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Samuel Myron Brainerd R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Harry Libbey O-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- George Henry Craig R-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Starke Rosecrans D-CA
- Charles Allen Sumner D-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Thomas Hardeman Jr. D-GA
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA
- Luman Hamlin Weller O-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- John Frederick Finerty O-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- Stanton Judkins Peelle R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD
- Hart Benton Holton R-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- Julius Houseman D-MI
- Herschel Harrison Hatch R-MI
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- Alexander Graves D-MO
- John Cosgrove D-MO
- James Overton Broadhead D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Clement Dowd D-NC
- Tyre York O-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE
- William Henry Frederick Fiedler D-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- William Dorsheimer D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- 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
- David Raymond Paige D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Daniel Ward Connolly D-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- William Addison Duncan D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey R-SC
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Thomas Peck Ochiltree I-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 Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Henry Bowen O-VA
- John Sergeant Wise O-VA
- Daniel Hadley Sumner D-WI
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- Gilbert Motier Woodward D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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