House roll call 247 · 49th Congress · Jan 26, 1887
To amend H.R. 10419, regarding river and harbor appropriation, which amendment appropriates $7,500,000, to be expended by a board of engineers, for the repair,
On Jan 26, 1887, the House voted 45–177 (HR 10419). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 11–117, Republicans 34–58, Others 0–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 45 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
- 45
- No
- 177
- Did not vote
- 111
- Date
- Jan 26, 1887
By party
- Democrats11 yes · 117 no · 60 didn’t vote
- Republicans34 yes · 58 no · 51 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- James Alexander Louttit R-CA voted yes
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA voted yes
- John Ransom Buck R-CT voted yes
- John Turner Wait R-CT voted yes
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL voted yes
- George Everett Adams R-IL voted yes
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted yes
- John Rice Eden D-IL voted yes
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN voted yes
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS voted yes
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS voted yes
- John Davis Long R-MA voted yes
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA voted yes
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA voted yes
- William Whitney Rice R-MA voted yes
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI voted yes
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI voted yes
- Knute Nelson R-MN voted yes
- John Mills Allen D-MS voted yes
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC voted yes
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC voted yes
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC voted yes
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC voted yes
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH voted yes
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ voted yes
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ voted yes
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY voted yes
- Nicholas Muller D-NY voted yes
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY voted yes
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY voted yes
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH voted yes
- John Little R-OH voted yes
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH voted yes
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH voted yes
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA voted yes
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA voted yes
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA voted yes
- Franklin Bound R-PA voted yes
- William Wallace Brown R-PA voted yes
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA voted yes
- William Wallace Grout R-VT voted yes
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI voted yes
- Richard William Guenther R-WI voted yes
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Alexander Louttit R-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- John Ransom Buck R-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- John Little R-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA
- Franklin Bound R-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
How each representative voted: No
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert 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
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- Nathaniel Job Hammond 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
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- James Hugh Ward D-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- James Thomas Johnston R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- William Henry Wadsworth R-KY
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Alfred Briggs Irion D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- Frederick David Ely R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Charles Carter Comstock D-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
- Milo White R-MN
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- William Warner R-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- William Dawson D-MO
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Henry Smith Van Eaton D-MS
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman O-NY
- Egbert Ludoricus Viele D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- George West R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- John Baptiste Weber R-NY
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- Charles Marley Anderson D-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- Jacob Romeis R-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- George Washington Fleeger R-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- Zachary Taylor R-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- James Henry Jones D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- James Francis Miller D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- James Dennis Brady R-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- Connally Findlay Trigg D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
Did not vote
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Henry Harrison Markham R-CA
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- Benjamin Todd Frederick D-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Joseph Lyman R-IA
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- George Ford D-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Louis St. Martin D-LA
- Michael Hahn R-LA
- Nathaniel Dick Wallace D-LA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- William Hinson Cole D-MD
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- John Bachop Gilfillan R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- John Blackwell Hale D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- George Hires R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- Robert Stockton Green D-NJ
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Joseph Pulitzer D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Abraham Dowdney D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- James Girard Lindsley R-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- John Swinburne R-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- William Wallace Ellsberry D-OH
- Isaac Hamilton Taylor R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- Alexander Colwell White R-PA
- Charles Harrison Page D-RI
- William Almy Pirce R-RI
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Thomas Croxton D-VA
- Harry Libbey R-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- Hugh Hiram Price R-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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Capitol Receipts, “To amend H.R. 10419, regarding river and…: House Vote, Jan 26, 1887,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/49-H-247/to-amend-h-r-10419-regarding-river-and-harbor (accessed 2026-10-17).