House roll call 453 · 51st Congress · Dec 20, 1890
To adjourn, motion made during debate on H.R. 4809, (26 stat 1348, feb. 13, 1891), a bill canceling the contract with the oregon paving and contract co. For the
On Dec 20, 1890, the House voted 65–109. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 1–100, Democrats 64–9. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 10 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
- 65
- No
- 109
- Did not vote
- 176
- Date
- Dec 20, 1890
By party
- Democrats64 yes · 9 no · 94 didn’t vote
- Republicans1 yes · 100 no · 81 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Henry Forney D-AL voted no
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL voted no
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN voted yes
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA voted no
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS voted no
- John Steele Henderson D-NC voted no
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY voted no
- John Quinn D-NY voted no
- Charles Tracey D-NY voted no
- David Browning Culberson D-TX voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Thomas J. Geary D-CA
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- Scott Wike D-IL
- George Washington Fithian D-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- James Robert Williams D-IL
- William Fletcher Parrett D-IN
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- George William Cooper D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire D-IN
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- Augustus Newton Martin D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- William Thomas Ellis D-KY
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- W. W. (William Worth) Dickerson D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Joseph Henry O'Neil D-MA
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- Robert Henry Whitelaw D-MO
- Clarke Lewis D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer D-NJ
- Samuel Fowler D-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- William Elisha Haynes D-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- William Mutchler D-PA
- David B. Brunner D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- Silas Hare D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- Hosea Townsend R-CO
- William Edgar Simonds R-CT
- Frederick Miles R-CT
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- John Fletcher Lacey R-IA
- Edward Retilla Hays R-IA
- James Patton Flick R-IA
- Joseph Rea Reed R-IA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Willis Sweet R-ID
- Abner Taylor R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Charles Augustus Hill R-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Harrison Kelley R-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- John Henry Wilson R-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Charles Sturtevant Randall R-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- John Wilson Candler R-MA
- Henry Stockbridge Jr. R-MD
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- 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
- Frank Willis Wheeler R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- John Lind R-MN
- William Medcalf Kinsey R-MO
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Thomas Henry Carter R-MT
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- Gilbert Lafayette Laws R-NE
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Christopher Augustus Bergen R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- Horace Franklin Bartine R-NV
- William Copeland Wallace R-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- John Quinn 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 Schoolcraft Sherman 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
- Melvin Morella Boothman R-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- Robert Patterson Kennedy R-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Martin Luther Smyser R-OH
- Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- John Edgar Reyburn R-PA
- Marriott Brosius R-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Myron Benjamin Wright R-PA
- Edward Scull R-PA
- Samuel Alfred Craig R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Joseph Warren Ray R-PA
- Charles Warren Stone R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- John Alfred Pickler R-SD
- Oscar Sherman Gifford R-SD
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Henry Clay Evans R-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Edmund Waddill Jr. R-VA
- John Mercer Langston R-VA
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- George Wesley Atkinson R-WV
- Charles Brooks Smith R-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
Did not vote
- Richard Henry Clarke D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- John Van Mcduffie R-AL
- Louis Washington Turpin D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- Lewis Porter Featherstone O-AR
- William Henderson Cate D-AR
- John Jefferson De Haven R-CA
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Thomas Jefferson Clunie D-CA
- Washington Frederick Willcox D-CT
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Robert Bullock D-FL
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA
- John David Stewart D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Joseph Henry Sweney R-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- William St. John Forman D-IL
- George Washington Smith R-IL
- Jason Brevoort Brown D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Charles A. O. Mcclellan D-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Hamilton Dudley Coleman R-LA
- Andrew Price D-LA
- Charles Jahleal Boatner D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Elijah Adams Morse R-MA
- John Forrester Andrew D-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- Frederic Thomas Greenhalge 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
- 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
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson R-MI
- Darwin Scott Hall R-MN
- Samuel Prather Snider R-MN
- Solomon Gilman Comstock R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson D-MO
- John Charles Tarsney D-MO
- Richard Henry Norton D-MO
- Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus R-MO
- Nathan Frank R-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Henry Plummer Cheatham R-NC
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn D-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Hamilton Glover Ewart R-NC
- Henry Clay Hansbrough R-ND
- William James Connell R-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- Alonzo Nute R-NH
- Orren Cheney Moore R-NH
- Charles Dyer Beckwith R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- James Way Covert D-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- John Michael Clancy D-NY
- Thomas Francis Magner D-NY
- Charles Henry Turner D-NY
- Frank Thomas Fitzgerald D-NY
- Edward John Dunphy D-NY
- John Henry Mccarthy D-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola 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
- David Wilber R-NY
- Milton De Lano R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood R-NY
- John McClure Wiley D-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- John Alexander Caldwell R-OH
- Elihu Stephen Williams R-OH
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley R-OH
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- James W. Owens D-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Richard Vaux D-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Winebrenner Rife R-PA
- Henry Clay Mccormick R-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Charles Champlain Townsend R-PA
- William Constantine Culbertson R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- James Kerr D-PA
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Thomas Ezekiel Miller R-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- Alfred Alexander Taylor R-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Edward Carrington Venable D-VA
- Posey Green Lester D-VA
- Paul Carrington Edmunds D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- John Alexander Buchanan D-VA
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- John Lockwood Wilson R-WA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Charles Barwig D-WI
- George H. Brickner D-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Myron Hawley Mccord R-WI
- John Overton Pendleton D-WV
- John Duffy Alderson D-WV
- James Monroe Jackson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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