House roll call 233 · 50th Congress · Jan 7, 1889
To adjourn. (p. 571-1)
On Jan 7, 1889, the House voted 74–125. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 3–98, Democrats 69–23, Others 2–3, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 26 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
- 125
- Did not vote
- 129
- Date
- Jan 7, 1889
By party
- Democrats69 yes · 23 no · 76 didn’t vote
- Republicans3 yes · 98 no · 53 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 3 no
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- William Calvin Oates D-AL voted no
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL voted no
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae 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
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY voted no
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY voted no
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA voted no
- John Lind R-MN voted yes
- John Lewis Macdonald D-MN voted no
- Edmund Rice D-MN voted no
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO voted no
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO voted no
- Felix Campbell D-NY voted no
- Lloyd Stephens Bryce D-NY voted no
- Truman Adams Merriman D-NY voted no
- Charles Tracey D-NY voted no
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH voted no
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA voted yes
- William Henry Sowden D-PA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Thomas Larkin Thompson D-CA
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Henry Gray Turner 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
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- Albert Raney Anderson O-IA
- George Alburtus Anderson D-IL
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- John Alexander Anderson O-KS
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Edward Burnett D-MA
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Isidor Rayner D-MD
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Melbourne Haddock Ford D-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- John Lind R-MN
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- 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
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- William Harrison Martin 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
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
How each representative voted: No
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- Robert Johnstone Vance D-CT
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- David Bremner Henderson 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
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Ralph Plumb 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
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Whiteside Godfrey Hunter R-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-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
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. 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
- John Lewis Macdonald D-MN
- Edmund Rice D-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- William Warner R-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- John Nichols I-NC
- 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
- Lloyd Stephens Bryce D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman D-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
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- Elihu Stephen Williams 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 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
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- Franklin Bound R-PA
- Edward Scull R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- John Patton R-PA
- Welty Mccullogh R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- William Embre Gaines R-VA
- John Robert Brown 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
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- Carlos French D-CT
- Miles Tobey Granger D-CT
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- Joseph Lyman R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Alvin Peterson Hovey R-IN
- Francis Blackburn Posey R-IN
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- James Bain White R-IN
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- George Morgan Thomas R-KY
- Matthew Diamond Lagan D-LA
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Cherubusco Newton D-LA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- John Edwards Russell D-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- Thomas Wilson D-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- John Albert Mcshane D-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Luther Franklin Mckinney D-NH
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Stephen Van Culen White R-NY
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- William Bourke Cockran D-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-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
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- Melvin Morella Boothman R-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- 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
- James Thompson Maffett R-PA
- Norman Hall D-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe 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 Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-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.