House roll call 123 · 50th Congress · Apr 10, 1888
To adjourn, motion made during consideration of S. 139. (p. 2862-1)
On Apr 10, 1888, the House voted 52–116. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–98, Democrats 50–15, Others 2–2, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 15 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
- 52
- No
- 116
- Did not vote
- 160
- Date
- Apr 10, 1888
By party
- Democrats50 yes · 15 no · 103 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 98 no · 56 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 2 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY voted no
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA voted no
- Edmund Rice D-MN voted no
- William Mcadoo D-NJ voted no
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY voted no
- Lloyd Stephens Bryce D-NY voted no
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY voted no
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH voted no
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA voted no
- William Henry Sowden D-PA voted no
- Norman Hall D-PA voted no
- Samuel Dibble D-SC voted no
- William Elliott D-SC voted no
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA voted no
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Robert Johnstone Vance D-CT
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes 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
- George Alburtus Anderson D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- Cherubusco Newton D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Melbourne Haddock Ford D-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- John Albert Mcshane D-NE
- Luther Franklin Mckinney D-NH
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Henry Smith O-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- 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
- Adoniram Judson Holmes 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
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Jehu Baker R-IL
- Alvin Peterson Hovey R-IN
- James Thomas Johnston R-IN
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- James Bain White R-IN
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Whiteside Godfrey Hunter R-KY
- George Morgan Thomas R-KY
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Edward Payson Allen R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Henry William Seymour R-MI
- John Lind R-MN
- Edmund Rice D-MN
- William Warner R-MO
- John Nichols I-NC
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- John Kean R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Lloyd Stephens Bryce D-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch R-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- John Henry Moffitt R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- John Baptiste Weber R-NY
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth 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
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley R-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
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA
- Franklin Bound R-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- Henry Clay Mccormick R-PA
- Edward Scull R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Norman Hall D-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- William Embre Gaines R-VA
- John Robert Brown R-VA
- Samuel Isaac Hopkins O-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- Henry Bowen R-VA
- Jacob Yost R-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- Thomas Larkin Thompson D-CA
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- Carlos French D-CT
- Miles Tobey Granger D-CT
- John Brown Penington 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
- John David Stewart D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Francis Blackburn Posey R-IN
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson O-KS
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Matthew Diamond Lagan D-LA
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- Edward Burnett D-MA
- John Edwards Russell D-MA
- William Whiting R-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
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-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
- John Lewis Macdonald D-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Louis Charles Latham D-NC
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- James Laird R-NE
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- George Hires R-NJ
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Stephen Van Culen White R-NY
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman D-NY
- William Bourke Cockran D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Stephen Tyng Hopkins R-NY
- Edward Whitford Greenman D-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- George West R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- Milton De Lano R-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood R-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- John Lynch D-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- John Patton R-PA
- Welty Mccullogh R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- James Thompson Maffett R-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Silas Hare D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
- Charles Edgar Hogg D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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