To amend a resolution relating to the amendment of rules, by increasing from 30 minutes to one hour the time for daily consideration of bills and resolutions on

On Feb 2, 1885, the House voted 175–77. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 82–70, Republicans 91–6, Others 3–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 76 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: 175
No: 77
Did not vote: 85
Date: Feb 2, 1885

By party

Democrats82 yes · 70 no · 49 didn’t vote
Republicans91 yes · 6 no · 27 didn’t vote
Others3 yes · 2 no · 7 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL voted no
Thomas Williams D-AL voted no
Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL voted no
William Henry Forney D-AL voted no
Luke Pryor D-AL voted no
Samuel West Peel D-AR voted no
Pleasant Britton Tully D-CA voted no
William Wallace Eaton D-CT voted no
Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT voted no
Henry Gray Turner D-GA voted no
Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA voted no
Hugh Buchanan D-GA voted no
Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA voted no
James Henderson Blount D-GA voted no
Judson Claudius Clements D-GA voted no
Seaborn Reese D-GA voted no
Allen Daniel Candler D-GA voted no
Thomas Hardeman Jr. D-GA voted no
Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL voted no
Thomas Reed Cobb 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
George Washington Steele R-IN voted no
John Alexander Anderson R-KS voted no
Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY voted no
Albert Shelby Willis D-KY voted no
Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY voted no
John Daugherty White R-KY voted no
Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA voted no
William Cotter Maybury D-MI voted no
Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI voted no
Edward Samuel Lacey R-MI voted no
George Lewis Yaple D-MI voted no
Julius Houseman D-MI voted no
Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI voted no
Ezra Child Carleton D-MI voted no
Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO voted no
John Cosgrove D-MO voted no
Richard Parks Bland D-MO voted no
Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS voted no
James Edward O'Hara R-NC voted no
William Ruffin Cox D-NC voted no
Clement Dowd D-NC voted no
Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC voted no
William Henry Frederick Fiedler D-NJ voted no
John Hardy D-NY voted no
Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY voted no
John Thomas Spriggs D-NY voted no
John Fassett Follett D-OH voted no
Robert Maynard Murray D-OH voted no
Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH voted no
George Ebbert Seney D-OH voted no
William David Hill D-OH voted no
George Washington Geddes D-OH voted no
Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA voted no
Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA voted no
John Brutzman Storm D-PA voted no
Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA voted no
John Denniston Patton D-PA voted no
David Wyatt Aiken D-SC voted no
John Bratton D-SC voted no
George William Dargan D-SC voted no
Benton Mcmillin D-TN voted no
Richard Warner D-TN voted no
John Goff Ballentine D-TN voted no
Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN voted no
Charles Stewart D-TX voted no
John Henninger Reagan D-TX voted no
Olin Wellborn D-TX voted no
James Francis Miller D-TX voted no
Roger Quarles Mills D-TX voted no
George Craighead Cabell D-VA voted no
John Winans D-WI voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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Capitol Receipts, “To amend a resolution relating to the…: House Vote, Feb 2, 1885,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/48-H-263/to-amend-a-resolution-relating-to-the-amendment-of (accessed 2026-10-15).