House roll call 153 · 49th Congress · Jul 21, 1886
That all general debate be closed at 5 p.m. On S. 1532, an act to regulate inter-state commerce and to prevent unjust discrimination by common carriers.
On Jul 21, 1886, the House voted 204–24 (S 1532). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 122–3, Republicans 80–21, Others 2–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 24 members voted against their own party.
During the 49th Congress (1885–1886), Grover Cleveland was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 204
- No
- 24
- Did not vote
- 105
- Date
- Jul 21, 1886
By party
- Democrats122 yes · 3 no · 63 didn’t vote
- Republicans80 yes · 21 no · 42 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL voted no
- George Everett Adams R-IL voted no
- Ralph Plumb R-IL voted no
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL voted no
- John Davis Long R-MA voted no
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME voted no
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME voted no
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN voted no
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO voted no
- George Hires R-NJ voted no
- William Woodburn R-NV voted no
- Darwin Rush James R-NY voted no
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY voted no
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY voted no
- George West R-NY voted no
- Frank Hiscock R-NY voted no
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH voted no
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH voted no
- Charles O'Neill R-PA voted no
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA voted no
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA voted no
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA voted no
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI voted no
- Harry Libbey R-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL
- Thomas William Sadler D-AL
- John Mason Martin D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- 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
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Benton Jay Hall D-IA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- Benjamin Todd Frederick D-IA
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Joseph Lyman R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- James Thomas Johnston R-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- George Ford D-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Louis St. Martin D-LA
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Alfred Briggs Irion D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- Frederick David Ely R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- John Blackwell Hale D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- William Warner R-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Henry Smith Van Eaton D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- Robert Stockton Green D-NJ
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman O-NY
- Egbert Ludoricus Viele D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- James Girard Lindsley R-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- John Swinburne R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- John Baptiste Weber R-NY
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- John Little R-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- Jacob Romeis R-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA
- Franklin Bound R-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Alexander Colwell White R-PA
- George Washington Fleeger R-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- William Almy Pirce R-RI
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- Zachary Taylor R-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- James Henry Jones D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Thomas Croxton D-VA
- James Dennis Brady R-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- Connally Findlay Trigg D-VA
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- George Hires R-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- George West R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Harry Libbey R-VA
Did not vote
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- James Alexander Louttit R-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- Henry Harrison Markham R-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- John Ransom Buck R-CT
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- James Hugh Ward D-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- William Henry Wadsworth R-KY
- Michael Hahn R-LA
- Nathaniel Dick Wallace D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- William Hinson Cole D-MD
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Charles Carter Comstock D-MI
- John Bachop Gilfillan R-MN
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Dawson D-MO
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Joseph Pulitzer D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Abraham Dowdney D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Charles Marley Anderson D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- William Wallace Ellsberry D-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Isaac Hamilton Taylor R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Charles Harrison Page D-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- James Francis Miller D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- Hugh Hiram Price R-WI
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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