House roll call 30 · 49th Congress · Mar 22, 1886
To commit to committee on claims, H.R. 2585, authorizing the United States pension agent at knoxville, tenn. To pay the sum of $1,556.68 out of pension money on
On Mar 22, 1886, the House voted 123–78 (HR 2585). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 108–6, Republicans 15–71, Others 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 21 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
- 123
- No
- 78
- Did not vote
- 132
- Date
- Mar 22, 1886
By party
- Democrats108 yes · 6 no · 74 didn’t vote
- Republicans15 yes · 71 no · 57 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Ransom Buck R-CT voted yes
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA voted yes
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA voted yes
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted yes
- John Robert Thomas R-IL voted yes
- James Thomas Johnston R-IN voted yes
- John Davis Long R-MA voted yes
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA voted yes
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD voted no
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI voted no
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ voted no
- William Mcadoo D-NJ voted no
- Lewis Beach D-NY voted no
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY voted yes
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY voted yes
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH voted yes
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA voted yes
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI voted yes
- John Randolph Neal D-TN voted no
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT voted yes
- William Thompson Price R-WI voted yes
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
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- John Ransom Buck R-CT
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- 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
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- Benton Jay Hall D-IA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- Benjamin Todd Frederick D-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- James Thomas Johnston R-IN
- George Ford D-IN
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Henry Smith Van Eaton D-MS
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- Robert Stockton Green D-NJ
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Egbert Ludoricus Viele D-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- Charles Marley Anderson D-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- James Henry Jones D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- James Francis Miller D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Thomas Croxton D-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- Connally Findlay Trigg D-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- James Baird Weaver O-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
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- William Henry Wadsworth R-KY
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- William Warner R-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- James Girard Lindsley R-NY
- George West R-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- John Baptiste Weber R-NY
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- John Little R-OH
- Jacob Romeis R-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill 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
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- Alexander Colwell White R-PA
- George Washington Fleeger R-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- William Almy Pirce R-RI
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- Zachary Taylor R-TN
- James Dennis Brady R-VA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
Did not vote
- James Alexander Louttit R-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- Henry Harrison Markham R-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Joseph Lyman R-IA
- James Hugh Ward D-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Louis St. Martin D-LA
- Michael Hahn R-LA
- Nathaniel Dick Wallace D-LA
- Alfred Briggs Irion D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Frederick David Ely R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- William Hinson Cole D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Charles Carter Comstock D-MI
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- John Bachop Gilfillan R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- John Blackwell Hale D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- William Dawson D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- George Hires R-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- 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
- Joseph Pulitzer D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman O-NY
- Abraham Dowdney D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- John Swinburne R-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- William Wallace Ellsberry D-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Isaac Hamilton Taylor R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- Charles Harrison Page D-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Harry Libbey R-VA
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Hugh Hiram Price R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
Other votes
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Capitol Receipts, “To commit to committee on claims, H.R. 2585…: House Vote, Mar 22, 1886,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/49-H-30/to-commit-to-committee-on-claims-h-r-2585 (accessed 2026-10-16).