House roll call 53 · 48th Congress · Mar 19, 1884
To decide whether the cmmittee of the whole will consider H.R. 5265, a bill for extending the time for the payment of taxes on distilled spirits now in warehous
On Mar 19, 1884, the House voted 138–118 (HR 5265). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 108–54, Republicans 24–62, Others 6–3, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 78 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
- 138
- No
- 118
- Did not vote
- 81
- Date
- Mar 19, 1884
By party
- Democrats108 yes · 54 no · 39 didn’t vote
- Republicans24 yes · 62 no · 38 didn’t vote
- Others6 yes · 3 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- 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
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR voted no
- Samuel West Peel D-AR voted no
- James Burns Belford R-CO voted yes
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL voted yes
- 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
- William Henry Mills Pusey D-IA voted no
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL voted yes
- George Royal Davis R-IL voted yes
- George Everett Adams R-IL voted yes
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL voted yes
- William Wirt Culbertson R-KY voted yes
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA voted yes
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA voted yes
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA voted yes
- Hart Benton Holton R-MD voted yes
- George Lewis Yaple D-MI voted no
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI voted no
- Edward Breitung R-MI voted yes
- Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO voted no
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO voted no
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO voted no
- Robert Washington Fyan D-MO voted no
- Elza Jeffords R-MS voted yes
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS voted no
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC voted no
- Clement Dowd D-NC voted no
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC voted no
- James Laird R-NE voted yes
- Thomas Merrill Ferrell D-NJ voted no
- John Kean R-NJ voted yes
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ voted yes
- William Henry Frederick Fiedler D-NJ voted no
- William Mcadoo D-NJ voted no
- Felix Campbell D-NY voted no
- Nicholas Muller D-NY voted no
- Lewis Beach D-NY voted no
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY voted no
- Robert Smith Stevens D-NY voted no
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH voted yes
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH voted yes
- James Sidney Robinson R-OH voted yes
- George Leroy Converse D-OH voted no
- George Washington Geddes D-OH voted no
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH voted no
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH voted yes
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA voted no
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA voted no
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA voted yes
- George Adams Post D-PA voted no
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA voted no
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI voted yes
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC voted no
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN voted yes
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN voted no
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN voted no
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN voted no
- John May Taylor D-TN voted no
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN voted no
- David Browning Culberson D-TX voted no
- Olin Wellborn D-TX voted no
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX voted no
- George Douglas Wise D-VA voted no
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA voted no
- Burr W. Jones D-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- William Starke Rosecrans D-CA
- James Herbert Budd D-CA
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- Pleasant Britton Tully D-CA
- Charles Allen Sumner D-CA
- John Raglan Glascock D-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- John Calhoun Nicholls D-GA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- George Royal Davis R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Aaron Shaw 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
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- John Edward Lamb D-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Wood D-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- 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
- William Wirt Culbertson R-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Edward Taylor Lewis D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- Theodore Lyman O-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD
- Hart Benton Holton R-MD
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- Edward Breitung R-MI
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- Alexander Graves D-MO
- John Cosgrove 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
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Elza Jeffords R-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Henry Smith Van Eaton D-MS
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- Tyre York O-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- James Laird R-NE
- John Kean R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- William Dorsheimer D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY
- Edward Wemple D-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY
- William Findlay Rogers D-NY
- Henry Warner Slocum 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
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- James Sidney Robinson R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- David Raymond Paige D-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Daniel Ward Connolly D-PA
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- John Denniston Patton D-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- James Henry Jones 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
- Robert Murphy Mayo O-VA
- Harry Libbey O-VA
- Benjamin Stephen Hooper O-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Daniel Hadley Sumner D-WI
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- Gilbert Motier Woodward D-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Thomas Williams D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- 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
- Thomas Hardeman Jr. D-GA
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA
- Luman Hamlin Weller O-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- William Henry Mills Pusey D-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Robert Roberts Hitt 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
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- John Alexander Anderson 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
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Edward Samuel Lacey R-MI
- George Lewis Yaple D-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Herschel Harrison Hatch R-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Robert Washington Fyan D-MO
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Clement Dowd D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- Thomas Merrill Ferrell D-NJ
- Benjamin Franklin Howey R-NJ
- William Henry Frederick Fiedler D-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- George Washington Ray R-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- Robert Smith Stevens D-NY
- Francis Beattie Brewer R-NY
- John Watts Mccormick R-OH
- George Leroy Converse D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm O-PA
- George Adams Post D-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Samuel Myron Brainerd R-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- Henry Bowen 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
Did not vote
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- George Henry Craig R-AL
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- Hiram Ypsilanti Smith R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- John Frederick Finerty O-IL
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN
- Stanton Judkins Peelle R-IN
- William Eastin English D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively O-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY
- Carleton Hunt D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- William Augustus Russell R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- George Washington Covington D-MD
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Julius Houseman D-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO
- James Ronald Chalmers I-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Ossian Ray R-NH
- John Hart Brewer R-NJ
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- John Hardy D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- Charles Rufus Skinner R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- Alphonso Hart R-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Jonathan Hasson Wallace 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
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- William Addison Duncan D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Mortimer Fitzland Elliott D-PA
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- John Bratton D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Richard Warner D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- George Tankard Garrison D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- John Sergeant Wise O-VA
- John Winans D-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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