House roll call 52 · 50th Congress · Mar 17, 1888
To order the previous question on house resolution setting apart time for discussion on labor matters.
On Mar 17, 1888, the House voted 207–21. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 117–0, Democrats 87–21, Others 5–0, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 21 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
- 207
- No
- 21
- Did not vote
- 97
- Date
- Mar 17, 1888
By party
- Democrats87 yes · 21 no · 60 didn’t vote
- Republicans117 yes · 0 no · 37 didn’t vote
- Others5 yes · 0 no
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- William Calvin Oates D-AL voted no
- Samuel West Peel D-AR voted no
- Charles Dougherty D-FL voted no
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA voted no
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA voted no
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN voted no
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY voted no
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD voted no
- James Peter Walker D-MO voted no
- John Mills Allen D-MS voted no
- Frederick George Barry D-MS voted no
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC voted no
- William Hayne Perry D-SC voted no
- John James Hemphill D-SC voted no
- George William Dargan D-SC voted no
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN voted no
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN voted no
- William Harrison Martin D-TX voted no
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX voted no
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX voted no
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson 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
- Thomas Larkin Thompson D-CA
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- Robert Johnstone Vance D-CT
- Carlos French D-CT
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA
- John David Stewart D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Albert Raney Anderson O-IA
- Joseph Lyman 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
- 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
- George Alburtus Anderson D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- Jehu Baker R-IL
- Alvin Peterson Hovey R-IN
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- 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
- 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
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- Whiteside Godfrey Hunter R-KY
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- George Morgan Thomas R-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge 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
- 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
- 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
- John Lind R-MN
- John Lewis Macdonald 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 Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- John Nichols I-NC
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston 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
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman D-NY
- William Bourke Cockran D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Stephen Tyng Hopkins R-NY
- Edward Whitford Greenman D-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- George West 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
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- John Baptiste Weber R-NY
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- Elihu Stephen Williams R-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
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- George Washington Crouse R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- William Henry Sowden D-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
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Norman Hall D-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- William Embre Gaines R-VA
- Samuel Isaac Hopkins O-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- Jacob Yost R-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Henry Smith O-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Edgar Hogg D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- Miles Tobey Granger D-CT
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Francis Blackburn Posey R-IN
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- Matthew Diamond Lagan D-LA
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Cherubusco Newton D-LA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Isidor Rayner D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Melbourne Haddock Ford D-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- Thomas Wilson D-MN
- Edmund Rice D-MN
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Louis Charles Latham D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Stephen Van Culen White R-NY
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- 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
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- John Lynch D-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Welty Mccullogh R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- James Thompson Maffett R-PA
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- Silas Hare D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- John Robert Brown R-VA
- Henry Bowen R-VA
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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