House roll call 227 · 49th Congress · Jan 13, 1887
To amend S. 1458 (24 stat 423, app 2/28/87), a bill to provide for holding terms of the circuit and district courts of the U.S. For the eastern district of mic
On Jan 13, 1887, the House voted 117–113 (S 1458). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 102–25, Republicans 13–88, Others 2–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 38 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
- 117
- No
- 113
- Did not vote
- 103
- Date
- Jan 13, 1887
By party
- Democrats102 yes · 25 no · 61 didn’t vote
- Republicans13 yes · 88 no · 42 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- William Calvin Oates D-AL voted no
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL voted no
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR voted no
- John Henry Rogers D-AR voted no
- Samuel West Peel D-AR voted no
- James Alexander Louttit R-CA voted yes
- William W. Morrow R-CA voted yes
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA voted yes
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL voted no
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA voted no
- John Rice Eden D-IL voted no
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN voted no
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN voted no
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS voted yes
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY voted no
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD voted no
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI voted no
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI voted no
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC voted no
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC voted no
- James Buchanan R-NJ voted yes
- William Woodburn R-NV voted yes
- Darwin Rush James R-NY voted yes
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY voted yes
- Jacob Romeis R-OH voted yes
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH voted no
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA voted yes
- John Augustus Swope D-PA voted no
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA voted no
- Alexander Colwell White R-PA voted yes
- William Hayne Perry D-SC voted no
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN voted no
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN voted no
- Zachary Taylor R-TN voted yes
- James Henry Jones D-TX voted no
- David Browning Culberson D-TX voted no
- Harry Libbey R-VA voted yes
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL
- Thomas William Sadler D-AL
- John Mason Martin D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- James Alexander Louttit R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- 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
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Benton Jay Hall D-IA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- Benjamin Todd Frederick D-IA
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- James Hugh Ward D-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- George Ford D-IN
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Alfred Briggs Irion D-LA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI
- John Blackwell Hale D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Henry Smith Van Eaton D-MS
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- Robert Stockton Green D-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman O-NY
- Egbert Ludoricus Viele D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Charles Marley Anderson D-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- Jacob Romeis R-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- Alexander Colwell White R-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Zachary Taylor R-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- James Francis Miller D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Thomas Croxton D-VA
- Harry Libbey R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- Connally Findlay Trigg D-VA
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- Henry Harrison Markham R-CA
- John Ransom Buck R-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- William Elijah Fuller R-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
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- James Thomas Johnston R-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- William Henry Wadsworth R-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-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
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- William Warner R-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- James Laird R-NE
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- James Girard Lindsley R-NY
- John Swinburne R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- John Baptiste Weber R-NY
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- John Little R-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Isaac Hamilton Taylor R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- 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
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- Franklin Bound R-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- George Washington Fleeger R-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- William Almy Pirce R-RI
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- James Henry Jones D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Dennis Brady R-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
Did not vote
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- Louis St. Martin D-LA
- Michael Hahn R-LA
- Nathaniel Dick Wallace D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- William Hinson Cole D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Charles Carter Comstock D-MI
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- John Bachop Gilfillan R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- William Dawson D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- George Hires R-NJ
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Joseph Pulitzer D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Abraham Dowdney D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- George West R-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- William Wallace Ellsberry D-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- Charles Harrison Page D-RI
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- Hugh Hiram Price 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
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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Capitol Receipts, “To amend S. 1458 (24 stat 423, app 2/28/87)…: House Vote, Jan 13, 1887,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/49-H-227/to-amend-s-1458-24-stat-423-app-2 (accessed 2026-10-16).