House roll call 24 · 50th Congress · Jan 26, 1888
To adjourn. (p. 764-1)
On Jan 26, 1888, the House voted 81–140. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 68–50, Republicans 12–87, Others 1–3. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 62 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
- 81
- No
- 140
- Did not vote
- 107
- Date
- Jan 26, 1888
By party
- Democrats68 yes · 50 no · 50 didn’t vote
- Republicans12 yes · 87 no · 55 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 3 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL voted no
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR voted no
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR voted no
- John Brown Penington D-DE voted no
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA voted no
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA voted no
- John David Stewart D-GA voted no
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA voted no
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA voted yes
- Daniel Kerr R-IA voted yes
- Frank Lawler D-IL voted no
- William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
- James Bain White R-IN voted yes
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY voted no
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA voted no
- Cherubusco Newton D-LA voted no
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA voted no
- John Logan Chipman D-MI voted no
- Melbourne Haddock Ford D-MI voted no
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI voted no
- Thomas Wilson D-MN voted no
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO voted no
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO voted no
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS voted no
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS voted no
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC voted no
- Alfred Rowland D-NC voted no
- John Steele Henderson D-NC voted no
- John Albert Mcshane D-NE voted no
- Luther Franklin Mckinney D-NH voted no
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ voted no
- William Mcadoo D-NJ voted no
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY voted no
- Edward Whitford Greenman D-NY voted no
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH voted yes
- Jacob Romeis R-OH voted yes
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH voted no
- Charles O'Neill R-PA voted yes
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA voted no
- William Henry Sowden D-PA voted no
- John Lynch D-PA voted no
- John Patton R-PA voted yes
- John Dalzell R-PA voted yes
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA voted yes
- Samuel Dibble D-SC voted no
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC voted no
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC voted no
- William Hayne Perry D-SC voted no
- John James Hemphill D-SC voted no
- William Elliott D-SC voted no
- John Randolph Neal D-TN voted no
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN voted no
- Charles Stewart D-TX voted no
- David Browning Culberson D-TX voted no
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX voted no
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX voted no
- George Douglas Wise D-VA voted no
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI voted yes
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI voted yes
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI voted yes
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV voted no
- Charles Edgar Hogg D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Carlos French D-CT
- Miles Tobey Granger D-CT
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- George Alburtus Anderson D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- James Bain White R-IN
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- Isidor Rayner D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Louis Charles Latham D-NC
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Lloyd Stephens Bryce D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman D-NY
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Jacob Romeis R-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- John Patton R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Norman Hall D-PA
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
How each representative voted: No
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA
- John David Stewart D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- John Henry Gear 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
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Jehu Baker R-IL
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- James Thomas Johnston R-IN
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson O-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
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Cherubusco Newton D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Edward Payson Allen R-MI
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Melbourne Haddock Ford D-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- Thomas Wilson D-MN
- John Lind R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- 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
- George Hires R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- John Kean R-NJ
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Stephen Van Culen White R-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch R-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Edward Whitford Greenman D-NY
- John Henry Moffitt R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- Elihu Stephen Williams R-OH
- Melvin Morella Boothman R-OH
- Robert Patterson Kennedy R-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- George Washington Crouse R-OH
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand 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
- Edward Scull R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- William Embre Gaines R-VA
- John Robert Brown R-VA
- Henry Bowen R-VA
- Jacob Yost R-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Henry Smith O-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
- Charles Edgar Hogg D-WV
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Thomas Larkin Thompson D-CA
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- Robert Johnstone Vance D-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Alvin Peterson Hovey R-IN
- Francis Blackburn Posey R-IN
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Matthew Diamond Lagan D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- Edward Burnett D-MA
- John Edwards Russell D-MA
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Henry William Seymour R-MI
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- John Lewis Macdonald D-MN
- Edmund Rice D-MN
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- William Warner R-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- John Nichols I-NC
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- William Bourke Cockran D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- Stephen Tyng Hopkins R-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- George West R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- Milton De Lano R-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- John Baptiste Weber R-NY
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley R-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Henry Clay Mccormick R-PA
- Welty Mccullogh R-PA
- James Thompson Maffett R-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- Silas Hare D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- Samuel Isaac Hopkins O-VA
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.