House roll call 230 · 48th Congress · Jan 10, 1885
To dispense with the morning hour, in order to have committees submit their reports. (p. 608)
On Jan 10, 1885, the House voted 135–83. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 112–26, Republicans 19–53, Others 3–4, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 45 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
- 135
- No
- 83
- Did not vote
- 121
- Date
- Jan 10, 1885
By party
- Democrats112 yes · 26 no · 63 didn’t vote
- Republicans19 yes · 53 no · 52 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 4 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL voted no
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL voted yes
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA voted no
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA voted yes
- James Wilson R-IA voted yes
- William Henry Mills Pusey D-IA voted no
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL voted yes
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL voted no
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted yes
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN voted no
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN voted no
- Robert Lowry D-IN voted no
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS voted yes
- Thomas Ryan R-KS voted yes
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY voted no
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA voted no
- John Davis Long R-MA voted yes
- William Whiting R-MA voted yes
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI voted no
- Julius Houseman D-MI voted no
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN voted yes
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN voted yes
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC voted no
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC voted no
- Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE voted yes
- Thomas Merrill Ferrell D-NJ voted no
- Edward Wemple D-NY voted no
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY voted yes
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH voted yes
- David Raymond Paige D-OH voted no
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA voted yes
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA voted yes
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA voted yes
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA voted no
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC voted no
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC voted no
- John James Hemphill D-SC voted no
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX voted no
- George Douglas Wise D-VA voted no
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA voted no
- Daniel Hadley Sumner D-WI voted no
- Gilbert Motier Woodward D-WI voted no
- William Thompson Price R-WI voted yes
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Thomas Williams D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- William Starke Rosecrans D-CA
- James Herbert Budd D-CA
- Pleasant Britton Tully D-CA
- John Raglan Glascock D-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-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
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- Thomas Hardeman Jr. D-GA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- William Eastin English D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively O-IN
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Oscar Turner O-KY
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Carleton Hunt D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Theodore Lyman O-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- George Washington Covington D-MD
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- George Lewis Yaple D-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO
- John Cosgrove D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- James Overton Broadhead 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
- Henry Smith Van Eaton D-MS
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- Clement Dowd D-NC
- Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE
- William Henry Frederick Fiedler D-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- William Dorsheimer D-NY
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY
- Robert Smith Stevens D-NY
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-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
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Daniel Ward Connolly D-PA
- George Adams Post D-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- John Denniston Patton D-PA
- Mortimer Fitzland Elliott D-PA
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Richard Warner D-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- Thomas Peck Ochiltree I-TX
- James Francis Miller D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- George Tankard Garrison D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- Burr W. Jones D-WI
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
How each representative voted: No
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- Hiram Ypsilanti Smith R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- William Henry Mills Pusey D-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- George Royal Davis R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- William Cullen R-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- William Wirt Culbertson R-KY
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Edward Samuel Lacey R-MI
- Julius Houseman D-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Edward Breitung R-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Elza Jeffords R-MS
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- Tyre York O-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- Ossian Ray R-NH
- Thomas Merrill Ferrell D-NJ
- John Kean R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- Edward Wemple D-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- John Watts Mccormick R-OH
- Alphonso Hart R-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- David Raymond Paige D-OH
- Melvin Clark George R-OR
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA
- Samuel Myron Brainerd R-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Harry Libbey O-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Henry Bowen O-VA
- John Sergeant Wise O-VA
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- Daniel Hadley Sumner D-WI
- Gilbert Motier Woodward D-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- George Henry Craig R-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- Charles Allen Sumner D-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Luman Hamlin Weller O-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- John Frederick Finerty O-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Stanton Judkins Peelle R-IN
- John Edward Lamb D-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Wood D-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- James Franklin Clay D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-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
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- William Augustus Russell R-MA
- William Whitney Rice 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
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI
- Herschel Harrison Hatch R-MI
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- Alexander Graves D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers I-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- John Hart Brewer R-NJ
- Benjamin Franklin Howey R-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- John Hardy D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- George Washington Ray R-NY
- Charles Rufus Skinner R-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- William Findlay Rogers D-NY
- Francis Beattie Brewer R-NY
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- John Fassett Follett D-OH
- Isaac M. Jordan D-OH
- Robert Maynard Murray D-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- James Sidney Robinson R-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- George Leroy Converse D-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm O-PA
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA
- William Addison Duncan D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner 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
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- James Henry Jones D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Robert Murphy Mayo O-VA
- Benjamin Stephen Hooper O-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- John Winans 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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