House roll call 274 · 50th Congress · Feb 6, 1889
To recommit S. 2547, a bill to increase the pension of MRS. Matilda wilkins emory, to the committee on invalid pensions. (p. 1577-1)
On Feb 6, 1889, the House voted 74–117 (S 2547). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 71–23, Republicans 2–92, Others 1–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 25 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
- 117
- Did not vote
- 137
- Date
- Feb 6, 1889
By party
- Democrats71 yes · 23 no · 74 didn’t vote
- Republicans2 yes · 92 no · 60 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 2 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL voted no
- Robert Johnstone Vance D-CT voted no
- Daniel Kerr R-IA voted yes
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL voted no
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN voted yes
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY voted no
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA voted no
- John Logan Chipman D-MI voted no
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO voted no
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS voted no
- William Mcadoo D-NJ voted no
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY voted no
- Lloyd Stephens Bryce D-NY voted no
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY voted no
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY voted no
- Charles Tracey D-NY voted no
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH voted no
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH voted no
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH voted no
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA voted no
- William Henry Sowden D-PA voted no
- John Lynch D-PA voted no
- Levi Maish D-PA voted no
- Norman Hall D-PA voted no
- William Henry Crain D-TX voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- 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
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson 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
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- George Alburtus Anderson D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-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
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Cherubusco Newton D-LA
- Edward Burnett D-MA
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker 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
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Silas Hare D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Samuel Isaac Hopkins O-VA
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- Robert Johnstone Vance D-CT
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Albert Raney Anderson O-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Jehu Baker R-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Francis Blackburn Posey R-IN
- James Thomas Johnston R-IN
- William Dale Owen 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
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- 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
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Henry William Seymour R-MI
- John Lind R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- George Hires R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Lloyd Stephens Bryce D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch R-NY
- Stephen Tyng Hopkins R-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- George West R-NY
- John Henry Moffitt R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- James Jerome Belden 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
- George Ebbert Seney 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
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- George Washington Crouse R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- John Lynch D-PA
- Henry Clay Mccormick R-PA
- Edward Scull R-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- John Patton R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- Norman Hall D-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne 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
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
Did not vote
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- Thomas Larkin Thompson D-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- Carlos French D-CT
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- Miles Tobey Granger D-CT
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- Joseph Lyman R-IA
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- Alvin Peterson Hovey R-IN
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- James Bain White R-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Matthew Diamond Lagan D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- John Edwards Russell D-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Isidor Rayner D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Melbourne Haddock Ford D-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- Thomas Wilson D-MN
- John Lewis Macdonald D-MN
- Edmund Rice D-MN
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- William Warner R-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- John Nichols I-NC
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- John Albert Mcshane D-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Luther Franklin Mckinney D-NH
- John Kean R-NJ
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Stephen Van Culen White R-NY
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman D-NY
- William Bourke Cockran D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Edward Whitford Greenman D-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- Milton De Lano R-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood R-NY
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA
- Franklin Bound R-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Welty Mccullogh R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- James Thompson Maffett R-PA
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- William Embre Gaines R-VA
- John Robert Brown R-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- Henry Bowen R-VA
- Jacob Yost R-VA
- Henry Smith O-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- 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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