House roll call 29 · 49th Congress · Mar 16, 1886
To suspend the rules and pass a resolution providing that house rules be suspended and tuesday april 13, be fixed for consideration of H.R. 6657, to regulate in
On Mar 16, 1886, the House voted 196–44 (HR 6657). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 126–9, Republicans 69–34, Others 1–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 43 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
- 196
- No
- 44
- Did not vote
- 93
- Date
- Mar 16, 1886
By party
- Democrats126 yes · 9 no · 53 didn’t vote
- Republicans69 yes · 34 no · 40 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- John Ransom Buck R-CT voted no
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT voted no
- John Turner Wait R-CT voted no
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT voted no
- George Everett Adams R-IL voted no
- William Dale Owen R-IN voted no
- George Washington Steele R-IN voted no
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA voted no
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA voted no
- William Whitney Rice R-MA voted no
- William Whiting R-MA voted no
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA voted no
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME voted no
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN voted no
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH voted no
- George Hires R-NJ voted no
- James Buchanan R-NJ voted no
- Robert Stockton Green D-NJ voted no
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ voted no
- Felix Campbell D-NY voted no
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY voted no
- John Joseph Adams D-NY voted no
- Abraham Dowdney D-NY voted no
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY voted no
- James Girard Lindsley R-NY voted no
- George West R-NY voted no
- Frank Hiscock R-NY voted no
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY voted no
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY voted no
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH voted no
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA voted no
- Charles O'Neill R-PA voted no
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA voted no
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA voted no
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA voted no
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA voted no
- James Scott Negley R-PA voted no
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA voted no
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI voted no
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI voted no
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI voted no
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI voted no
- Richard William Guenther R-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- 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
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Benton Jay Hall D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- James Hugh Ward D-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- James Thomas Johnston R-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward 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
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Thomas Austin Robertson 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
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- William Hinson Cole D-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows 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
- 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
- William Warner R-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone 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
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Egbert Ludoricus Viele D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- John Swinburne R-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- John Baptiste Weber R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- John Little R-OH
- Jacob Romeis R-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Franklin Bound R-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk 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
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- James Henry Jones 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
- 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
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- John Ransom Buck R-CT
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- George Hires R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- Robert Stockton Green D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman O-NY
- Abraham Dowdney D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- James Girard Lindsley R-NY
- George West R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
Did not vote
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- James Alexander Louttit R-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- Henry Harrison Markham R-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- Benjamin Todd Frederick D-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Joseph Lyman R-IA
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- William Henry Wadsworth R-KY
- Louis St. Martin D-LA
- Michael Hahn R-LA
- Nathaniel Dick Wallace D-LA
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Alfred Briggs Irion D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- Frederick David Ely R-MA
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- John Bachop Gilfillan R-MN
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- William Dawson D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Joseph Pulitzer D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- Charles Marley Anderson D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- William Wallace Ellsberry D-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- Isaac Hamilton Taylor R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Alexander Colwell White R-PA
- George Washington Fleeger R-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- Charles Harrison Page D-RI
- William Almy Pirce R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Thomas Croxton D-VA
- Harry Libbey R-VA
- James Dennis Brady R-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- Hugh Hiram Price R-WI
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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