House roll call 127 · 50th Congress · Apr 10, 1888
To dispense with further proceedings under the call. (p. 2876-1)
On Apr 10, 1888, the House voted 73–120. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 3–97, Democrats 68–20, Others 2–2, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 23 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
- 73
- No
- 120
- Did not vote
- 135
- Date
- Apr 10, 1888
By party
- Democrats68 yes · 20 no · 80 didn’t vote
- Republicans3 yes · 97 no · 54 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 2 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL voted no
- Jonas George Howard D-IN voted no
- William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
- William Dale Owen R-IN voted yes
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD voted no
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD voted yes
- John Lewis Macdonald D-MN voted no
- Edmund Rice D-MN voted no
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO voted no
- William Mcadoo D-NJ voted no
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY voted no
- Edward Whitford Greenman D-NY voted no
- Milton De Lano R-NY voted yes
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH voted no
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH voted no
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH voted no
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA voted no
- William Henry Sowden D-PA voted no
- John Lynch 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
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead 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
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Matthew Diamond Lagan D-LA
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Cherubusco Newton D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Melbourne Haddock Ford D-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale 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
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Lloyd Stephens Bryce D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- Milton De Lano R-NY
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Henry Smith O-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- William Vandever 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
- 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
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Jehu Baker R-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- Alvin Peterson Hovey R-IN
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- James Bain White R-IN
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson O-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Whiteside Godfrey Hunter R-KY
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Edward Payson Allen R-MI
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Henry William Seymour R-MI
- John Lind R-MN
- John Lewis Macdonald D-MN
- Edmund Rice D-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- William Warner R-MO
- John Nichols I-NC
- James Laird R-NE
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- George Hires R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- John Kean R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Stephen Van Culen White R-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch R-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Stephen Tyng Hopkins R-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
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- John Baptiste Weber R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- 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
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley R-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- George Washington Crouse R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- 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
- John Lynch 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
- John Patton R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Norman Hall D-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- William Embre Gaines R-VA
- John Robert Brown R-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- Henry Bowen R-VA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Thomas Larkin Thompson D-CA
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- Robert Johnstone Vance D-CT
- Carlos French D-CT
- Miles Tobey Granger D-CT
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- John David Stewart D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- Joseph Lyman R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- George Alburtus Anderson D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Francis Blackburn Posey R-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- James Thomas Johnston R-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- George Morgan Thomas R-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- Edward Burnett D-MA
- John Edwards Russell D-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Isidor Rayner D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- Thomas Wilson D-MN
- 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
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Louis Charles Latham D-NC
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Luther Franklin Mckinney D-NH
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman D-NY
- William Bourke Cockran D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood R-NY
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Welty Mccullogh R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- James Thompson Maffett R-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- Silas Hare D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Samuel Isaac Hopkins O-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- Jacob Yost R-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
- Charles Edgar Hogg D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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