House roll call 103 · 50th Congress · Apr 9, 1888
To amend a motion to recess, made during consideration of bill S. 139. (p. 2809-2)
On Apr 9, 1888, the House voted 9–163. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 1–106, Democrats 9–56, Others 0–2, Independents 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 10 members voted against their own party.
During the 50th Congress (1887–1888), Grover Cleveland was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 9
- No
- 163
- Did not vote
- 153
- Date
- Apr 9, 1888
By party
- Democrats9 yes · 56 no · 103 didn’t vote
- Republicans1 yes · 106 no · 47 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 2 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL voted yes
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA voted yes
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA voted yes
- John Edward Hutton D-MO voted yes
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO voted yes
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH voted yes
- John Randolph Neal D-TN voted yes
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN voted yes
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN voted yes
- William Henry Crain D-TX voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- William Henry Crain D-TX
How each representative voted: No
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- Carlos French D-CT
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Albert Raney Anderson O-IA
- Joseph Lyman R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- George Alburtus Anderson D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Jehu Baker R-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- Alvin Peterson Hovey R-IN
- John Henry O'Neall 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
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- James Bain White R-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Whiteside Godfrey Hunter R-KY
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- George Morgan Thomas R-KY
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Matthew Diamond Lagan D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- John Edwards Russell D-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Edward Payson Allen R-MI
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Henry William Seymour R-MI
- John Lind R-MN
- John Lewis Macdonald D-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- William Warner R-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Louis Charles Latham D-NC
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- John Nichols I-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- John Kean R-NJ
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Stephen Van Culen White R-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Edward Whitford Greenman D-NY
- George West R-NY
- John Henry Moffitt R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- Milton De Lano R-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- John Baptiste Weber R-NY
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- Elihu Stephen Williams R-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- Melvin Morella Boothman R-OH
- Robert Patterson Kennedy R-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- Jacob Romeis R-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- George Washington Crouse R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Franklin Bound R-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- Henry Clay Mccormick R-PA
- Edward Scull R-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- John Patton R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Norman Hall D-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- John Robert Brown R-VA
- Samuel Isaac Hopkins O-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- Henry Bowen R-VA
- Jacob Yost R-VA
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
- Charles Edgar Hogg D-WV
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- William Henry Forney 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
- Thomas Larkin Thompson D-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- Robert Johnstone Vance D-CT
- Miles Tobey Granger D-CT
- 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
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA
- John David Stewart D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Francis Blackburn Posey R-IN
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson O-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Cherubusco Newton D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- Edward Burnett D-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Isidor Rayner D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Melbourne Haddock Ford D-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- Thomas Wilson D-MN
- Edmund Rice D-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- John Albert Mcshane D-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- Luther Franklin Mckinney D-NH
- George Hires R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- Lloyd Stephens Bryce D-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman D-NY
- William Bourke Cockran D-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch R-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Stephen Tyng Hopkins R-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley R-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- John Lynch D-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Welty Mccullogh R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- James Thompson Maffett R-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- Silas Hare D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- William Embre Gaines R-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Henry Smith O-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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