House roll call 418 · 51st Congress · Dec 2, 1890
To adjourn, motion made during consideration of the bill H.R. 10881. (p. 35-1)
On Dec 2, 1890, the House voted 82–124. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 19–94, Democrats 63–30. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 49 members voted against their own party.
During the 51st Congress (1889–1890), Benjamin Harrison was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 82
- No
- 124
- Did not vote
- 144
- Date
- Dec 2, 1890
By party
- Democrats63 yes · 30 no · 74 didn’t vote
- Republicans19 yes · 94 no · 69 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL voted no
- Marion Biggs D-CA voted no
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester D-GA voted no
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA voted yes
- Daniel Kerr R-IA voted yes
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA voted yes
- Abner Taylor R-IL voted yes
- Frank Lawler D-IL voted no
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL voted yes
- Charles Augustus Hill R-IL voted yes
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL voted yes
- William Harrison Gest R-IL voted yes
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted yes
- George Washington Smith R-IL voted yes
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN voted no
- Harrison Kelley R-KS voted yes
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS voted yes
- Andrew Price D-LA voted no
- Charles Jahleal Boatner D-LA voted no
- John Forrester Andrew D-MA voted no
- John Logan Chipman D-MI voted no
- John Lind R-MN voted yes
- James Peter Walker D-MO voted no
- John Steele Henderson D-NC voted no
- Christopher Augustus Bergen R-NJ voted yes
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer D-NJ voted no
- James Way Covert D-NY voted no
- Felix Campbell D-NY voted no
- Edward John Dunphy D-NY voted no
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY voted no
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY voted no
- John Quinn D-NY voted no
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY voted no
- Charles Tracey D-NY voted no
- Milton De Lano R-NY voted yes
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH voted yes
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH voted no
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH voted yes
- Richard Vaux D-PA voted no
- William Mutchler D-PA voted no
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA voted no
- Levi Maish D-PA voted no
- Joseph Warren Ray R-PA voted yes
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC voted no
- John James Hemphill D-SC voted no
- George William Dargan D-SC voted no
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA voted no
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI voted yes
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates 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
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- Abner Taylor R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Charles Augustus Hill R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- William St. John Forman D-IL
- James Robert Williams D-IL
- George Washington Smith R-IL
- Jason Brevoort Brown D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- George William Cooper D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire D-IN
- Augustus Newton Martin D-IN
- Charles A. O. Mcclellan D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- Harrison Kelley R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight D-KY
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- John Lind R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- John Charles Tarsney D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- Richard Henry Norton D-MO
- Robert Henry Whitelaw D-MO
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Christopher Augustus Bergen R-NJ
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- Milton De Lano R-NY
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- William Elisha Haynes D-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- James W. Owens D-OH
- David B. Brunner D-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- Joseph Warren Ray R-PA
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Silas Hare D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Posey Green Lester D-VA
- Paul Carrington Edmunds D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Alexander Buchanan D-VA
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Hosea Townsend R-CO
- William Edgar Simonds R-CT
- Frederick Miles R-CT
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester D-GA
- Edward Retilla Hays R-IA
- Joseph Rea Reed R-IA
- Willis Sweet R-ID
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- John Henry Wilson R-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Hamilton Dudley Coleman R-LA
- Andrew Price D-LA
- Charles Jahleal Boatner D-LA
- Charles Sturtevant Randall R-MA
- Elijah Adams Morse R-MA
- John Forrester Andrew D-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- Frederic Thomas Greenhalge R-MA
- Henry Stockbridge Jr. R-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- 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
- Charles Eugene Belknap R-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Solomon Gilman Comstock R-MN
- Nathan Frank R-MO
- William Medcalf Kinsey R-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- Henry Plummer Cheatham R-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- William James Connell R-NE
- Gilbert Lafayette Laws R-NE
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Orren Cheney Moore R-NH
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer D-NJ
- Horace Franklin Bartine R-NV
- James Way Covert D-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- William Copeland Wallace R-NY
- Edward John Dunphy D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- John Quinn D-NY
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY
- Moses Dunning Stivers R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- John Adam Quackenbush R-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- John Henry Moffitt R-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- John Raines R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- John Alexander Caldwell R-OH
- Elihu Stephen Williams R-OH
- Melvin Morella Boothman R-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Martin Luther Smyser R-OH
- Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Richard Vaux D-PA
- John Edgar Reyburn R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Marriott Brosius R-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- Myron Benjamin Wright R-PA
- Henry Clay Mccormick R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Edward Scull R-PA
- Samuel Alfred Craig R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Charles Champlain Townsend R-PA
- William Constantine Culbertson R-PA
- Charles Warren Stone R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Alfred Alexander Taylor R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Henry Clay Evans R-TN
- Edmund Waddill Jr. R-VA
- John Mercer Langston R-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- John Lockwood Wilson R-WA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Brooks Smith R-WV
Did not vote
- Richard Henry Clarke D-AL
- John Van Mcduffie R-AL
- Louis Washington Turpin D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- Lewis Porter Featherstone O-AR
- William Henderson Cate D-AR
- John Jefferson De Haven R-CA
- Thomas J. Geary D-CA
- Thomas Jefferson Clunie D-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- Washington Frederick Willcox D-CT
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Robert Bullock D-FL
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA
- John David Stewart D-GA
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- Joseph Henry Sweney R-IA
- John Fletcher Lacey R-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- James Patton Flick R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- George Washington Fithian D-IL
- William Fletcher Parrett D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- William Thomas Ellis D-KY
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- W. W. (William Worth) Dickerson D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Joseph Henry O'Neil D-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- John Wilson Candler R-MA
- Joseph Henry Walker R-MA
- Rodney Wallace R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Herman Stump D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Aaron Thomas Bliss R-MI
- Frank Willis Wheeler R-MI
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson R-MI
- Darwin Scott Hall R-MN
- Samuel Prather Snider R-MN
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson D-MO
- Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus R-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Clarke Lewis D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Thomas Henry Carter R-MT
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn D-NC
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Hamilton Glover Ewart R-NC
- Henry Clay Hansbrough R-ND
- James Laird R-NE
- Alonzo Nute R-NH
- Samuel Fowler D-NJ
- Charles Dyer Beckwith R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- John Michael Clancy D-NY
- Thomas Francis Magner D-NY
- Charles Henry Turner D-NY
- Frank Thomas Fitzgerald D-NY
- John Henry Mccarthy D-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Charles Junius Knapp R-NY
- John Sanford R-NY
- Frederick Lansing R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood R-NY
- John McClure Wiley D-NY
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- Robert Patterson Kennedy R-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley R-OH
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- John Winebrenner Rife R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- James Kerr D-PA
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- Thomas Ezekiel Miller R-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- John Alfred Pickler R-SD
- Oscar Sherman Gifford R-SD
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Edward Carrington Venable D-VA
- Charles Barwig D-WI
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- George H. Brickner D-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- Myron Hawley Mccord R-WI
- George Wesley Atkinson R-WV
- John Overton Pendleton D-WV
- John Duffy Alderson D-WV
- James Monroe Jackson D-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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