House roll call 43 · 49th Congress · Apr 3, 1886
To pass H.R. 7479, providing for the speedy settlement of the controversies between common carriers engaged in interstate and territorial transportation of prop
On Apr 3, 1886, the House voted 199–30 (HR 7479). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 97–34, Republicans 112–0, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 34 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
- 199
- No
- 30
- Did not vote
- 89
- Date
- Apr 3, 1886
By party
- Democrats97 yes · 34 no · 57 didn’t vote
- Republicans112 yes · 0 no · 31 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Taylor Jones D-AL voted no
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL voted no
- Thomas William Sadler D-AL voted no
- William Henry Forney D-AL voted no
- John Henry Rogers D-AR voted no
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL voted no
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA voted no
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA voted no
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA voted no
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA voted no
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA voted no
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA voted no
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA voted no
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA voted no
- Jonas George Howard D-IN voted no
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY voted no
- Alfred Briggs Irion D-LA voted no
- John Blackwell Hale D-MO voted no
- John Edward Hutton D-MO voted no
- John Milton Glover D-MO voted no
- John Mills Allen D-MS voted no
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC voted no
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC voted no
- Perry Belmont D-NY voted no
- William David Hill D-OH voted no
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH voted no
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC voted no
- William Hayne Perry D-SC voted no
- John James Hemphill D-SC voted no
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX voted no
- Thomas Croxton D-VA voted no
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA voted no
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA voted no
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- John Mason Martin 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
- 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
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Joseph Lyman R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- James Hugh Ward D-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-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
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison 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
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- George Washington Steele 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
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- William Henry Wadsworth R-KY
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Louis St. Martin D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- Frederick David Ely R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Barnes Compton 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
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- James O'Donnell R-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
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- William Warner R-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland 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
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- George Hires R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- Robert Stockton Green D-NJ
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- Egbert Ludoricus Viele D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- John Swinburne R-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer 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
- Charles Marley Anderson D-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- John Little R-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- Jacob Romeis R-OH
- William Wallace Ellsberry D-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Isaac Hamilton Taylor R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-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
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-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
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- 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
- 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
- Harry Libbey R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- James Dennis Brady R-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL
- Thomas William Sadler D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- 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
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- Alfred Briggs Irion D-LA
- John Blackwell Hale D-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- William David Hill D-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Thomas Croxton D-VA
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
Did not vote
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- James Alexander Louttit R-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Benton Jay Hall D-IA
- Benjamin Todd Frederick D-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Michael Hahn R-LA
- Nathaniel Dick Wallace D-LA
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- William Hinson Cole D-MD
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Charles Carter Comstock D-MI
- John Bachop Gilfillan R-MN
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Joseph Pulitzer D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman O-NY
- Abraham Dowdney D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- James Girard Lindsley R-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- George West R-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Charles Harrison Page D-RI
- William Almy Pirce R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Connally Findlay Trigg D-VA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- Hugh Hiram Price R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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