To agree to the first division of the amendment in form of a resolution to S. 185, which provides that the territory of new mexico and the proposed new states t

On Feb 14, 1889, the House voted 135–105 (S 185). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 119–3, Democrats 15–104, Others 2–3, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 18 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: 135
No: 105
Did not vote: 81
Date: Feb 14, 1889

By party

Democrats15 yes · 104 no · 49 didn’t vote
Republicans119 yes · 3 no · 32 didn’t vote
Others2 yes · 3 no
Independents1 yes · 0 no

Who broke with their party

Thomas Larkin Thompson D-CA voted yes
Marion Biggs D-CA voted yes
Robert Johnstone Vance D-CT voted yes
Jehu Baker R-IL voted no
Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN voted no
Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN voted yes
William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY voted yes
Edward Burnett D-MA voted yes
John Edwards Russell D-MA voted yes
John Logan Chipman D-MI voted yes
Melbourne Haddock Ford D-MI voted yes
William Woodburn R-NV voted no
Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY voted yes
Lloyd Stephens Bryce D-NY voted yes
Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted yes
Samuel S. Yoder D-OH voted yes
William Henry Sowden D-PA voted yes
Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

Thomas Larkin Thompson D-CA
Marion Biggs D-CA
Joseph Mckenna R-CA
William W. Morrow R-CA
William Vandever R-CA
George Gifford Symes R-CO
Robert Johnstone Vance D-CT
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
Albert Raney Anderson O-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
William Harrison Gest R-IL
Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
John Robert Thomas R-IL
Francis Blackburn Posey R-IN
Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
James Thomas Johnston R-IN
George Washington Steele R-IN
James Bain White 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
John Alexander Anderson O-KS
Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
Whiteside Godfrey Hunter R-KY
William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
George Morgan Thomas R-KY
Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
John Davis Long R-MA
Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
William Cogswell R-MA
Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
Edward Burnett D-MA
John Edwards Russell D-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
John Logan Chipman D-MI
Edward Payson Allen R-MI
James O'Donnell R-MI
Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
Melbourne Haddock Ford D-MI
Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
Henry William Seymour R-MI
John Lind R-MN
William Henry Wade R-MO
John Nichols I-NC
John Morehead Brower R-NC
George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
George Hires R-NJ
James Buchanan R-NJ
John Kean R-NJ
Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
Lloyd Stephens Bryce D-NY
Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
Ashbel Parmelee Fitch R-NY
John Henry Ketcham R-NY
Stephen Tyng Hopkins R-NY
John Henry Moffitt R-NY
Abraham X. Parker R-NY
James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
David Wilber R-NY
James Jerome Belden R-NY
Milton De Lano 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
Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
Elihu Stephen Williams R-OH
Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
Melvin Morella Boothman R-OH
Robert Patterson Kennedy R-OH
William Craig Cooper R-OH
Jacob Romeis R-OH
Jacob Joseph Pugsley R-OH
Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
Ezra Booth Taylor 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
Smedley Darlington R-PA
John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
William Henry Sowden D-PA
Franklin Bound R-PA
Henry Clay Mccormick 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
Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
George Edwin Bowden R-VA
William Embre Gaines R-VA
John Robert Brown 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

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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