House roll call 246 · 48th Congress · Jan 24, 1885
To adjourn the house. (p. 993)
On Jan 24, 1885, the House voted 101–100. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 96–30, Republicans 2–65, Others 2–5, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 32 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
- 101
- No
- 100
- Did not vote
- 138
- Date
- Jan 24, 1885
By party
- Democrats96 yes · 30 no · 75 didn’t vote
- Republicans2 yes · 65 no · 57 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 5 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Pleasant Britton Tully D-CA voted no
- John Raglan Glascock D-CA voted no
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL voted no
- William Henry Neece D-IL voted no
- William McKendree Springer D-IL voted no
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL voted no
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN voted no
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN voted no
- William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN voted no
- William Eastin English D-IN voted no
- John Edward Lamb D-IN voted no
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Wood D-IN voted no
- Robert Lowry D-IN voted no
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY voted no
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC voted no
- Lewis Beach D-NY voted no
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY voted yes
- Edward Wemple D-NY voted no
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY voted no
- Robert Smith Stevens D-NY voted no
- William Findlay Rogers D-NY voted no
- John Fassett Follett D-OH voted no
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH voted no
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH voted no
- David Raymond Paige D-OH voted no
- George Adams Post D-PA voted no
- John Augustus Swope D-PA voted no
- Jonathan Chace R-RI voted yes
- David Browning Culberson D-TX voted no
- Burr W. Jones D-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates 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
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-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
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- William Henry Mills Pusey D-IA
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Oscar Turner O-KY
- James Franklin Clay D-KY
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY
- Carleton Hunt D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Theodore Lyman O-MA
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- George Lewis Yaple D-MI
- Julius Houseman D-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Cosgrove D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- 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
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- Isaac M. Jordan D-OH
- Robert Maynard Murray D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- George Leroy Converse D-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Jonathan Hasson Wallace D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- John Denniston Patton D-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Bratton D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Richard Warner D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young 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
- Thomas Peck Ochiltree I-TX
- James Francis Miller D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- George Tankard Garrison D-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Daniel Hadley Sumner D-WI
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Pleasant Britton Tully D-CA
- John Raglan Glascock D-CA
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Luman Hamlin Weller O-IA
- James Wilson R-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 Royal Davis R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN
- William Steele Holman 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
- Benjamin Franklin Shively O-IN
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- William Augustus Russell R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Edward Samuel Lacey R-MI
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Edward Breitung R-MI
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- Elza Jeffords R-MS
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- Tyre York O-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- Edward Wemple D-NY
- George Washington Ray R-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY
- Robert Smith Stevens D-NY
- William Findlay Rogers D-NY
- John Fassett Follett D-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- John Watts Mccormick R-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- David Raymond Paige D-OH
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- George Adams Post D-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Samuel Myron Brainerd R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Harry Libbey O-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- Burr W. Jones D-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- George Henry Craig R-AL
- Thomas Williams D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- William Starke Rosecrans D-CA
- James Herbert Budd D-CA
- Charles Allen Sumner D-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- John Calhoun Nicholls D-GA
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- Thomas Hardeman Jr. D-GA
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- William Cullen R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Stanton Judkins Peelle R-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- William Wirt Culbertson R-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Edward Taylor Lewis D-LA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- George Washington Covington D-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Hart Benton Holton R-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- Herschel Harrison Hatch R-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Alexander Graves D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- James Overton Broadhead D-MO
- Robert Washington Fyan D-MO
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers I-MS
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Clement Dowd D-NC
- James Laird R-NE
- 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
- William Henry Frederick Fiedler D-NJ
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- Darwin Rush James R-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
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- Charles Rufus Skinner R-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Francis Beattie Brewer R-NY
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- James Sidney Robinson R-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- Alphonso Hart R-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Melvin Clark George R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Daniel Ward Connolly D-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm O-PA
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA
- William Addison Duncan D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Mortimer Fitzland Elliott D-PA
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- Robert Murphy Mayo O-VA
- Benjamin Stephen Hooper O-VA
- Henry Bowen O-VA
- John Sergeant Wise O-VA
- John Winans D-WI
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- Gilbert Motier Woodward D-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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