House roll call 255 · 50th Congress · Jan 18, 1889
To amend S. 185 by substituting a new bill, H. R. 8466, to enable the people of dakota, montana, washington and new mexico to form constitution and state govern
On Jan 18, 1889, the House voted 133–120 (S 185). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 129–0, Republicans 0–120, Others 4–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
During the 50th Congress (1887–1888), Grover Cleveland was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 133
- No
- 120
- Did not vote
- 75
- Date
- Jan 18, 1889
By party
- Democrats129 yes · 0 no · 39 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 120 no · 34 didn’t vote
- Others4 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
Every member who voted sided with their party's majority.
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Thomas Larkin Thompson D-CA
- Robert Johnstone Vance D-CT
- Carlos French D-CT
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- 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
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- Albert Raney Anderson O-IA
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- George Alburtus Anderson D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- Edward Lane D-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
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Polk Laffoon 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
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Cherubusco Newton D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- John Edwards Russell D-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- Isidor Rayner D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- Thomas Wilson D-MN
- John Lewis Macdonald D-MN
- Edmund Rice D-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- 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
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- Luther Franklin Mckinney D-NH
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman D-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Norman Hall D-PA
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Samuel Isaac Hopkins O-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- Henry Smith O-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Joseph Mckenna 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
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- George Everett Adams 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
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Jehu Baker R-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- James Thomas Johnston R-IN
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-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
- George Morgan Thomas R-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- 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
- John Lind R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- William Warner R-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- George Hires R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- John Kean R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Stephen Tyng Hopkins R-NY
- John Henry Moffitt R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood 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
- 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
- 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
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA
- Franklin Bound R-PA
- Henry Clay Mccormick 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
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- William Embre Gaines R-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
Did not vote
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- Miles Tobey Granger D-CT
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- Joseph Lyman R-IA
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- Alvin Peterson Hovey R-IN
- Francis Blackburn Posey R-IN
- James Bain White R-IN
- John Alexander Anderson O-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- Whiteside Godfrey Hunter R-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- Edward Burnett D-MA
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Melbourne Haddock Ford D-MI
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- Louis Charles Latham D-NC
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC
- John Nichols I-NC
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- John Albert Mcshane D-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Felix Campbell 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
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Edward Whitford Greenman D-NY
- George West R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- Milton De Lano R-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- John Lynch D-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- Welty Mccullogh R-PA
- James Thompson Maffett R-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- Silas Hare D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- John Robert Brown R-VA
- Henry Bowen R-VA
- Jacob Yost R-VA
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
- Charles Edgar Hogg D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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