House roll call 232 · 50th Congress · Jan 7, 1889
To adjourn. (p. 570-1)
On Jan 7, 1889, the House voted 74–138. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 6–104, Democrats 66–31, Others 2–3. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 37 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
- 74
- No
- 138
- Did not vote
- 116
- Date
- Jan 7, 1889
By party
- Democrats66 yes · 31 no · 71 didn’t vote
- Republicans6 yes · 104 no · 44 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 3 no
Who broke with their party
- William Calvin Oates D-AL voted no
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR voted no
- Samuel West Peel D-AR voted no
- Robert Johnstone Vance D-CT voted no
- William McKendree Springer D-IL voted no
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL voted no
- Edward Lane D-IL voted no
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL voted no
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN voted no
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN voted yes
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN voted no
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS voted yes
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY voted no
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA voted no
- Edward Burnett D-MA voted no
- John Edwards Russell D-MA voted no
- John Lind R-MN voted yes
- Edmund Rice D-MN voted no
- Knute Nelson R-MN voted yes
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO voted no
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO voted no
- James Peter Walker D-MO voted no
- James Bright Morgan D-MS voted no
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS voted no
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ voted yes
- Felix Campbell D-NY voted no
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY voted no
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY voted no
- Truman Adams Merriman D-NY voted no
- Charles Tracey D-NY voted no
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH voted no
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH voted no
- William Henry Sowden D-PA voted no
- Norman Hall D-PA voted no
- William Harrison Martin D-TX voted no
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX voted no
- John Robert Brown R-VA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Thomas Larkin Thompson D-CA
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Carlos French D-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- 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
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Albert Raney Anderson O-IA
- George Alburtus Anderson D-IL
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- John Alexander Anderson O-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- John Lind R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Louis Charles Latham D-NC
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- Luther Franklin Mckinney D-NH
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Silas Hare D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- John Robert Brown R-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
How each representative voted: No
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- Robert Johnstone Vance D-CT
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- William Ernest Mason R-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
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- Jehu Baker R-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- James Thomas Johnston 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
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Whiteside Godfrey Hunter R-KY
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- John Davis Long 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
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Edward Payson Allen R-MI
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Henry William Seymour R-MI
- Edmund Rice D-MN
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- William Warner R-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- George Hires R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- John Kean R-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Stephen Tyng Hopkins R-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- George West R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood 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
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- Elihu Stephen Williams R-OH
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- Melvin Morella Boothman R-OH
- Robert Patterson Kennedy R-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- Jacob Romeis R-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley R-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor 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
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- Franklin Bound R-PA
- Edward Scull R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- John Patton R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- Norman Hall D-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- Samuel Isaac Hopkins O-VA
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Henry Smith O-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- Miles Tobey Granger D-CT
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- Joseph Lyman R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Alvin Peterson Hovey R-IN
- Francis Blackburn Posey R-IN
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- George Morgan Thomas R-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Matthew Diamond Lagan D-LA
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Cherubusco Newton D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Isidor Rayner D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Melbourne Haddock Ford D-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- Thomas Wilson D-MN
- John Lewis Macdonald D-MN
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- John Nichols I-NC
- John Albert Mcshane D-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Stephen Van Culen White R-NY
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- Lloyd Stephens Bryce D-NY
- William Bourke Cockran D-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch R-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Edward Whitford Greenman D-NY
- John Henry Moffitt R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Milton De Lano R-NY
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- John Lynch D-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- Henry Clay Mccormick R-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Welty Mccullogh R-PA
- James Thompson Maffett R-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- William Embre Gaines R-VA
- Henry Bowen R-VA
- Jacob Yost R-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
- Charles Edgar Hogg D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.