House roll call 511 · 51st Congress · Jan 26, 1891
To recommit to the comm. On naval affairs H.R. 12782 (26 stat 799, feb. 28, 1891), a bill making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending june 3
On Jan 26, 1891, the House voted 70–148 (HR 12782). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 3–117, Democrats 67–30, Others 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 33 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
- 70
- No
- 148
- Did not vote
- 132
- Date
- Jan 26, 1891
By party
- Democrats67 yes · 30 no · 70 didn’t vote
- Republicans3 yes · 117 no · 62 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL voted no
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL voted no
- William Henry Forney D-AL voted no
- John Henry Rogers D-AR voted no
- Thomas J. Geary D-CA voted no
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL voted no
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA voted no
- James Henderson Blount D-GA voted no
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA voted no
- Daniel Kerr R-IA voted yes
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN voted yes
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS voted yes
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA voted no
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA voted no
- John Forrester Andrew D-MA voted no
- Joseph Henry O'Neil D-MA voted no
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD voted no
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD voted no
- William Joel Stone D-MO voted no
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS voted no
- John Steele Henderson D-NC voted no
- William Mcadoo D-NJ 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
- William Elisha Haynes D-OH voted no
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH voted no
- James W. Owens D-OH voted no
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN voted no
- David Browning Culberson D-TX voted no
- William Henry Crain D-TX voted no
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- John David Stewart D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- Scott Wike D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- George Washington Fithian D-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- William St. John Forman D-IL
- James Robert Williams D-IL
- William Fletcher Parrett D-IN
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- Jason Brevoort Brown D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- George William Cooper D-IN
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire D-IN
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- Augustus Newton Martin D-IN
- Charles A. O. Mcclellan D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- William Thomas Ellis D-KY
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight D-KY
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- W. W. (William Worth) Dickerson D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- Richard Henry Norton D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Robert Henry Whitelaw D-MO
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Clarke Lewis D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn D-NC
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer D-NJ
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- Richard Vaux D-PA
- David B. Brunner D-PA
- James Kerr D-PA
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- 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
- Charles Barwig D-WI
- George H. Brickner D-WI
- John Duffy Alderson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Lewis Porter Featherstone O-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Thomas J. Geary D-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- Hosea Townsend R-CO
- William Edgar Simonds R-CT
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- Frederick Miles R-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- Joseph Henry Sweney R-IA
- John Fletcher Lacey R-IA
- Edward Retilla Hays R-IA
- James Patton Flick R-IA
- Joseph Rea Reed R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Willis Sweet R-ID
- Abner Taylor R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Charles Augustus Hill R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Harrison Kelley R-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Hamilton Dudley Coleman R-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Elijah Adams Morse R-MA
- John Forrester Andrew D-MA
- Joseph Henry O'Neil D-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- Frederic Thomas Greenhalge R-MA
- Joseph Henry Walker R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Henry Stockbridge Jr. R-MD
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle 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
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson R-MI
- John Lind R-MN
- Solomon Gilman Comstock R-MN
- Nathan Frank R-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Thomas Henry Carter R-MT
- Henry Plummer Cheatham R-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- Hamilton Glover Ewart R-NC
- William James Connell R-NE
- Gilbert Lafayette Laws R-NE
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Alonzo Nute R-NH
- Orren Cheney Moore R-NH
- Christopher Augustus Bergen R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Horace Franklin Bartine R-NV
- William Copeland Wallace R-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- John Quinn D-NY
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY
- Moses Dunning Stivers R-NY
- Charles Junius Knapp R-NY
- John Adam Quackenbush R-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- John Henry Moffitt R-NY
- Frederick Lansing R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- John Raines R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
- John Alexander Caldwell R-OH
- Elihu Stephen Williams R-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- Robert Patterson Kennedy R-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- William Elisha Haynes D-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- James W. Owens D-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
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- John Edgar Reyburn R-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- Marriott Brosius R-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Myron Benjamin Wright R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Edward Scull R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Joseph Warren Ray R-PA
- Charles Champlain Townsend R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- Thomas Ezekiel Miller R-SC
- Alfred Alexander Taylor R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Henry Clay Evans R-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- John Mercer Langston R-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- Myron Hawley Mccord R-WI
- George Wesley Atkinson R-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
Did not vote
- Richard Henry Clarke D-AL
- John Van Mcduffie R-AL
- Louis Washington Turpin D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- William Henderson Cate D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- John Jefferson De Haven R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Thomas Jefferson Clunie D-CA
- Washington Frederick Willcox D-CT
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Robert Bullock D-FL
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester D-GA
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- George Washington Smith R-IL
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- John Henry Wilson R-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Andrew Price D-LA
- Charles Jahleal Boatner D-LA
- Charles Sturtevant Randall R-MA
- John Wilson Candler R-MA
- Rodney Wallace R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Herman Stump D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Aaron Thomas Bliss R-MI
- Frank Willis Wheeler R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Darwin Scott Hall R-MN
- Samuel Prather Snider R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson D-MO
- John Charles Tarsney D-MO
- Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus R-MO
- William Medcalf Kinsey R-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Henry Clay Hansbrough R-ND
- James Laird R-NE
- Samuel Fowler D-NJ
- Charles Dyer Beckwith 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
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- John Sanford R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Milton De Lano R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- John McClure Wiley D-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- Melvin Morella Boothman R-OH
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Winebrenner Rife R-PA
- Henry Clay Mccormick R-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Samuel Alfred Craig R-PA
- William Constantine Culbertson R-PA
- Charles Warren Stone R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- John Alfred Pickler R-SD
- Oscar Sherman Gifford R-SD
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- Silas Hare D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- Edmund Waddill Jr. R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Edward Carrington Venable D-VA
- Posey Green Lester D-VA
- John Lockwood Wilson R-WA
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- John Overton Pendleton D-WV
- Charles Brooks Smith R-WV
- James Monroe Jackson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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