House roll call 274 · 48th Congress · Feb 2, 1885
To adjourn, made during debate on resolution relating to amendment to rules. (p. 1182)
On Feb 2, 1885, the House voted 57–74. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 50–36, Republicans 6–37, Others 1–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 42 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
- 57
- No
- 74
- Did not vote
- 208
- Date
- Feb 2, 1885
By party
- Democrats50 yes · 36 no · 115 didn’t vote
- Republicans6 yes · 37 no · 81 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 1 no · 10 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Starke Rosecrans D-CA voted no
- James Herbert Budd D-CA voted no
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT voted no
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT voted no
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE voted no
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL voted yes
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN voted no
- Robert Lowry D-IN voted no
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA voted no
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA voted no
- Leopold Morse D-MA voted no
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA voted no
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD voted no
- Milo White R-MN voted yes
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN voted yes
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO voted no
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC voted no
- James Wesley Reid D-NC voted no
- William Mcadoo D-NJ voted no
- William Dorsheimer D-NY voted no
- John Joseph Adams D-NY voted no
- John Hardy D-NY voted no
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY voted no
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY voted no
- Edward Wemple D-NY voted no
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY voted no
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY voted no
- Robert Smith Stevens D-NY voted no
- John Fassett Follett D-OH voted no
- Isaac M. Jordan D-OH voted no
- William David Hill D-OH voted no
- George Adams Post D-PA voted no
- Samuel Dibble D-SC voted no
- Olin Wellborn D-TX voted no
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA voted no
- Burr W. Jones D-WI voted no
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI voted no
- Gilbert Motier Woodward D-WI voted no
- William Thompson Price R-WI voted yes
- Nathan Goff R-WV voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- John Raglan Glascock D-CA
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Hugh Buchanan D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- Thomas Hardeman Jr. D-GA
- Luman Hamlin Weller O-IA
- William Henry Mills Pusey D-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- William Eastin English D-IN
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- Julius Houseman D-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Cosgrove D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Clement Dowd D-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- George Leroy Converse D-OH
- Jonathan Hasson Wallace D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- John Denniston Patton D-PA
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- John Bratton D-SC
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Richard Warner D-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- James Henry Jones D-TX
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Starke Rosecrans D-CA
- James Herbert Budd D-CA
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- Hiram Ypsilanti Smith R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- George Royal Davis R-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- William Augustus Russell R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- Elza Jeffords R-MS
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- John Kean R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- William Dorsheimer D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- John Hardy D-NY
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- Edward Wemple D-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY
- Robert Smith Stevens D-NY
- Francis Beattie Brewer R-NY
- John Fassett Follett D-OH
- Isaac M. Jordan D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA
- George Adams Post D-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Sergeant Wise O-VA
- Burr W. Jones D-WI
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Gilbert Motier Woodward D-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- George Henry Craig R-AL
- Thomas Williams D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- Pleasant Britton Tully D-CA
- Charles Allen Sumner D-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- John Calhoun Nicholls D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- John Frederick Finerty O-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- William Cullen R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- 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
- Benjamin Franklin Shively O-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Oscar Turner O-KY
- James Franklin Clay D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY
- William Wirt Culbertson R-KY
- Carleton Hunt D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Edward Taylor Lewis D-LA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- Theodore Lyman O-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- George Washington Covington D-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD
- Hart Benton Holton R-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Edward Samuel Lacey R-MI
- George Lewis Yaple D-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI
- Herschel Harrison Hatch R-MI
- Edward Breitung R-MI
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- Alexander Graves D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- James Overton Broadhead D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Robert Washington Fyan D-MO
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers I-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Henry Smith Van Eaton D-MS
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales 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
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- Ossian Ray R-NH
- Thomas Merrill Ferrell D-NJ
- John Hart Brewer 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
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- George Washington Ray R-NY
- Charles Rufus Skinner R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- William Findlay Rogers D-NY
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- Robert Maynard Murray D-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- James Sidney Robinson R-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- John Watts Mccormick R-OH
- Alphonso Hart R-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- David Raymond Paige D-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Melvin Clark George R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Daniel Ward Connolly D-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm O-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- William Addison Duncan D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Samuel Myron Brainerd R-PA
- Mortimer Fitzland Elliott D-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton 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
- Robert Murphy Mayo O-VA
- Harry Libbey O-VA
- Benjamin Stephen Hooper O-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Henry Bowen O-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- John Winans D-WI
- Daniel Hadley Sumner D-WI
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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