House roll call 71 · 48th Congress · Apr 9, 1884
To pass a motion providing that the house resolve itself into the committee of the whole, in order to consider bills reported from the committee on public build
On Apr 9, 1884, the House voted 160–61. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 90–51, Republicans 67–9, Others 2–1, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 60 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
- 160
- No
- 61
- Did not vote
- 118
- Date
- Apr 9, 1884
By party
- Democrats90 yes · 51 no · 60 didn’t vote
- Republicans67 yes · 9 no · 48 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 1 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL voted no
- William Calvin Oates D-AL voted no
- Thomas Williams D-AL voted no
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL voted no
- William Henry Forney D-AL voted no
- Pleasant Britton Tully D-CA voted no
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL voted no
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL voted no
- William Henry Neece D-IL voted no
- James Milton Riggs D-IL voted no
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted no
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton D-IL voted no
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN voted no
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN voted no
- William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS voted no
- James Franklin Clay D-KY voted no
- John Edward Halsell D-KY voted no
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY voted no
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY voted no
- Edward Taylor Lewis D-LA voted no
- Leopold Morse D-MA voted no
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD voted no
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD voted no
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI voted no
- George Lewis Yaple D-MI voted no
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI voted no
- Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO voted no
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO voted no
- Alexander Graves D-MO voted no
- John Cosgrove D-MO voted no
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO voted no
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO voted no
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO voted no
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO voted no
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC voted no
- William Henry Frederick Fiedler D-NJ voted no
- William Mcadoo D-NJ voted no
- Felix Campbell D-NY voted no
- Abram Stevens Hewitt 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
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY voted no
- Frank Hiscock R-NY voted no
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH voted no
- George Leroy Converse D-OH voted no
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH voted no
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH voted no
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH 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
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX voted no
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA voted no
- Daniel Hadley Sumner D-WI voted no
- Burr W. Jones D-WI voted no
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI voted no
- Richard William Guenther R-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- 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
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- John Raglan Glascock D-CA
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- John Calhoun Nicholls D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Hugh Buchanan D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- Thomas Hardeman Jr. D-GA
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Luman Hamlin Weller O-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- William Henry Mills Pusey D-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- William Cullen R-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Stanton Judkins Peelle R-IN
- John Edward Lamb D-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Wood D-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- Carleton Hunt D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- George Washington Covington D-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- 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
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- Herschel Harrison Hatch R-MI
- Edward Breitung R-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- James Overton Broadhead 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
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Clement Dowd D-NC
- Tyre York O-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- James Laird 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
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- Edward Wemple D-NY
- George Washington Ray R-NY
- Charles Rufus Skinner R-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY
- Robert Smith Stevens D-NY
- Francis Beattie Brewer R-NY
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- Alphonso Hart R-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA
- John Denniston Patton D-PA
- Samuel Myron Brainerd R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- James Henry Jones D-TX
- David Browning Culberson 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
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- Gilbert Motier Woodward D-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Thomas Williams D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Pleasant Britton Tully D-CA
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton D-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Oscar Turner O-KY
- James Franklin Clay D-KY
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Edward Taylor Lewis D-LA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- George Lewis Yaple D-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- Alexander Graves D-MO
- John Cosgrove D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- William Henry Frederick Fiedler D-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- George Leroy Converse D-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Richard Warner D-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- Daniel Hadley Sumner D-WI
- Burr W. Jones D-WI
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
Did not vote
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- George Henry Craig R-AL
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Charles Allen Sumner D-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- Hiram Ypsilanti Smith R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- John Frederick Finerty O-IL
- George Royal Davis R-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- William Eastin English D-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively O-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- William Wirt Culbertson R-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- William Augustus Russell R-MA
- Theodore Lyman O-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- Hart Benton Holton R-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Robert Washington Fyan D-MO
- James Ronald Chalmers I-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE
- John Kean R-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- William Dorsheimer D-NY
- John Hardy D-NY
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. 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
- William David Hill D-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- James Sidney Robinson R-OH
- John Watts Mccormick R-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Jonathan Hasson Wallace D-OH
- David Raymond Paige D-OH
- Melvin Clark George R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Daniel Ward Connolly D-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm O-PA
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA
- George Adams Post D-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- William Addison Duncan D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Mortimer Fitzland Elliott D-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- John Bratton D-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- Robert Murphy Mayo O-VA
- Harry Libbey O-VA
- Benjamin Stephen Hooper O-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Henry Bowen O-VA
- John Sergeant Wise O-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- John Winans D-WI
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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