To fix the day to which the house shall adjourn. (p. 572-2)

On Jan 7, 1889, the House voted 12–156. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 2–91, Democrats 10–62, Others 0–3. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 12 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: 12
No: 156
Did not vote: 160
Date: Jan 7, 1889

By party

Democrats10 yes · 62 no · 96 didn’t vote
Republicans2 yes · 91 no · 61 didn’t vote
Others0 yes · 3 no · 2 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Carlos French D-CT voted yes
Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA voted yes
Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA voted yes
Cherubusco Newton D-LA voted yes
Melbourne Haddock Ford D-MI voted yes
John Mills Allen D-MS voted yes
Frederick George Barry D-MS voted yes
Herman Lehlbach R-NJ voted yes
John Andrew Hiestand R-PA voted yes
Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX voted yes
William Henry Crain D-TX voted yes
Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

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
Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
Samuel West Peel D-AR
Thomas Larkin Thompson D-CA
Marion Biggs D-CA
Joseph Mckenna R-CA
Charles Addison Russell R-CT
Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
Henry Gray Turner D-GA
John Henry Gear R-IA
William Elijah Fuller R-IA
Daniel Kerr R-IA
James Baird Weaver O-IA
Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
Isaac S. Struble R-IA
Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
Robert Roberts Hitt 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
Edward Lane D-IL
Jehu Baker R-IL
Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
John Henry O'Neall D-IN
Jonas George Howard 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
William Dale Owen R-IN
George Washington Steele 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 Campbell Preston Breckinridge 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
Isidor Rayner D-MD
Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
John Logan Chipman D-MI
Edward Payson Allen R-MI
James O'Donnell R-MI
Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
Henry William Seymour R-MI
Thomas Wilson D-MN
Edmund Rice D-MN
Knute Nelson R-MN
William Henry Hatch D-MO
Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
William Warner R-MO
John Taddeus Heard D-MO
John Edward Hutton D-MO
Richard Parks Bland D-MO
William Joel Stone D-MO
William Henry Wade R-MO
James Peter Walker D-MO
Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
Louis Charles Latham D-NC
Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC
Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
Alfred Rowland D-NC
Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
George Hires R-NJ
James Buchanan R-NJ
John Kean R-NJ
William Mcadoo D-NJ
William Woodburn R-NV
Felix Campbell D-NY
Timothy John Campbell 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
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
Melvin Morella Boothman R-OH
Robert Patterson Kennedy 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
George Washington Crouse R-OH
Binger Hermann R-OR
Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
William Darrah Kelley 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
Levi Maish D-PA
John Patton R-PA
Welty Mccullogh R-PA
John Dalzell R-PA
Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
James Sproull Cothran D-SC
Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
Charles Stewart D-TX
William Harrison Martin D-TX
David Browning Culberson D-TX
Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
William Embre Gaines R-VA
John Robert Brown R-VA
Samuel Isaac Hopkins O-VA
Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-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

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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