House roll call 547 · 51st Congress · Feb 21, 1891
To recommit, to the comm. On judiciary S. 174. (p. 3086-1)
On Feb 21, 1891, the House voted 86–150 (S 174). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 7–133, Democrats 79–16, Others 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 23 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
- 86
- No
- 150
- Did not vote
- 114
- Date
- Feb 21, 1891
By party
- Democrats79 yes · 16 no · 72 didn’t vote
- Republicans7 yes · 133 no · 42 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- John Brown Penington D-DE voted no
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA voted no
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA voted yes
- Daniel Kerr R-IA voted yes
- John Fletcher Lacey R-IA voted yes
- Frank Lawler D-IL voted no
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS voted yes
- John Forrester Andrew D-MA voted no
- Joseph Henry O'Neil D-MA voted no
- John Lind R-MN voted yes
- John Charles Tarsney D-MO voted no
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS voted no
- John Steele Henderson D-NC voted no
- Gilbert Lafayette Laws R-NE voted yes
- William Mcadoo D-NJ voted no
- James Way Covert D-NY voted no
- Edward John Dunphy D-NY voted no
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY voted no
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH voted no
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH voted yes
- Samuel Dibble D-SC voted no
- David Browning Culberson D-TX voted no
- Silas Hare D-TX voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Washington Frederick Willcox D-CT
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- John Fletcher Lacey 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
- 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
- Bishop Walden Perkins 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
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY
- Andrew Price D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Charles Jahleal Boatner D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Herman Stump D-MD
- John Lind R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- Richard Henry Norton D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- Robert Henry Whitelaw D-MO
- Clarke Lewis D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- Gilbert Lafayette Laws R-NE
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- John Quinn D-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- James W. Owens D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Paul Carrington Edmunds D-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- John Alexander Buchanan D-VA
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
- Charles Barwig D-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- John Duffy Alderson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- John Van Mcduffie R-AL
- Lewis Porter Featherstone O-AR
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- William Edgar Simonds R-CT
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- Frederick Miles R-CT
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- Edward Retilla Hays R-IA
- James Patton Flick R-IA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- Willis Sweet R-ID
- Abner Taylor R-IL
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Charles Augustus Hill R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- George Washington Smith R-IL
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Harrison Kelley R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Hamilton Dudley Coleman R-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
- John Wilson Candler R-MA
- Joseph Henry Walker R-MA
- Rodney Wallace R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Henry Stockbridge Jr. R-MD
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken 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
- Aaron Thomas Bliss R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Darwin Scott Hall R-MN
- Samuel Prather Snider R-MN
- Solomon Gilman Comstock R-MN
- John Charles Tarsney D-MO
- Nathan Frank R-MO
- William Medcalf Kinsey R-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Thomas Henry Carter R-MT
- Henry Plummer Cheatham R-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- Hamilton Glover Ewart R-NC
- Henry Clay Hansbrough R-ND
- William James Connell R-NE
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Horace Franklin Bartine R-NV
- James Way Covert D-NY
- William Copeland Wallace R-NY
- Edward John Dunphy D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Moses Dunning Stivers R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- John Sanford R-NY
- John Henry Moffitt R-NY
- Frederick Lansing R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Milton De Lano 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
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- Melvin Morella Boothman R-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- Robert Patterson Kennedy R-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley R-OH
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-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
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- Marriott Brosius R-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Myron Benjamin Wright R-PA
- Henry Clay Mccormick R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson 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 Champlain Townsend R-PA
- William Constantine Culbertson R-PA
- Charles Warren Stone R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- Thomas Ezekiel Miller R-SC
- Oscar Sherman Gifford R-SD
- Henry Clay Evans R-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Silas Hare D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- Edmund Waddill Jr. R-VA
- John Mercer Langston R-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- John Lockwood Wilson R-WA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Myron Hawley Mccord R-WI
- George Wesley Atkinson R-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
Did not vote
- Richard Henry Clarke D-AL
- Louis Washington Turpin D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- William Henderson Cate D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- John Jefferson De Haven R-CA
- Thomas J. Geary D-CA
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Thomas Jefferson Clunie D-CA
- Hosea Townsend R-CO
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Robert Bullock D-FL
- John David Stewart D-GA
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- Joseph Henry Sweney R-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Joseph Rea Reed R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- John Henry Wilson R-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Charles Sturtevant Randall R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Frank Willis Wheeler R-MI
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus R-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn D-NC
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- James Laird R-NE
- Alonzo Nute R-NH
- Orren Cheney Moore R-NH
- Christopher Augustus Bergen R-NJ
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer D-NJ
- Samuel Fowler D-NJ
- Charles Dyer Beckwith R-NJ
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- 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
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Charles Junius Knapp R-NY
- John Adam Quackenbush R-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood R-NY
- John McClure Wiley D-NY
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- William Elisha Haynes D-OH
- Richard Vaux D-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- John Edgar Reyburn R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- David B. Brunner D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Winebrenner Rife R-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- James Kerr D-PA
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- John Alfred Pickler R-SD
- Alfred Alexander Taylor R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Edward Carrington Venable D-VA
- Posey Green Lester D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- George H. Brickner D-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark 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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