House roll call 552 · 51st Congress · Feb 24, 1891
To amend S. 172 by permitting any citizen and owner of raw cotton, having paid a duty on same, to file a petition and bring suit in the court of claims, within
On Feb 24, 1891, the House voted 80–199 (S 172). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 3–152, Democrats 76–47, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 50 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
- 80
- No
- 199
- Did not vote
- 71
- Date
- Feb 24, 1891
By party
- Democrats76 yes · 47 no · 44 didn’t vote
- Republicans3 yes · 152 no · 27 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Thomas Jefferson Clunie D-CA voted no
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA voted yes
- William McKendree Springer D-IL voted no
- Edward Lane D-IL voted no
- James Robert Williams D-IL voted no
- William Fletcher Parrett D-IN voted no
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN voted no
- Jason Brevoort Brown D-IN voted no
- William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
- George William Cooper D-IN voted no
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN voted no
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire D-IN voted no
- Augustus Newton Martin D-IN voted no
- Charles A. O. Mcclellan D-IN voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN voted no
- William Johnson Stone D-KY voted no
- William Thomas Ellis D-KY voted no
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight D-KY voted no
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY voted no
- W. W. (William Worth) Dickerson D-KY voted no
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY voted no
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY voted no
- Hamilton Dudley Coleman R-LA voted yes
- John Forrester Andrew D-MA voted no
- Joseph Henry O'Neil D-MA voted no
- John Logan Chipman D-MI voted no
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI voted no
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO voted no
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson D-MO voted no
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO voted no
- William Joel Stone D-MO voted no
- John Steele Henderson D-NC voted no
- Hamilton Glover Ewart R-NC voted yes
- Samuel Fowler D-NJ voted no
- William Mcadoo D-NJ voted no
- James Way Covert D-NY voted no
- Edward John Dunphy D-NY voted no
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY voted no
- John Quinn D-NY voted no
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY voted no
- John McClure Wiley D-NY voted no
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH voted no
- William Elisha Haynes D-OH voted no
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH voted no
- James W. Owens D-OH voted no
- William Mutchler D-PA voted no
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX voted no
- Paul Carrington Edmunds D-VA voted no
- John Alexander Buchanan D-VA voted no
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV 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
- Lewis Porter Featherstone O-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- George Washington Fithian D-IL
- William St. John Forman D-IL
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- Hamilton Dudley Coleman R-LA
- Andrew Price D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Charles Jahleal Boatner D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- Richard Henry Norton D-MO
- Robert Henry Whitelaw D-MO
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- 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
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Hamilton Glover Ewart R-NC
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Richard Vaux D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- James Kerr D-PA
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- 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
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Silas Hare D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Posey Green Lester D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
How each representative voted: No
- John Van Mcduffie R-AL
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Thomas Jefferson Clunie D-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- Hosea Townsend R-CO
- William Edgar Simonds R-CT
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- Frederick Miles R-CT
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- Joseph Henry Sweney R-IA
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- John Fletcher Lacey 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
- William Ernest Mason 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
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- James Robert Williams D-IL
- George Washington Smith R-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
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire D-IN
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Augustus Newton Martin D-IN
- Charles A. O. Mcclellan D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Harrison Kelley R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- William Thomas Ellis D-KY
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight D-KY
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- W. W. (William Worth) Dickerson D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY
- John Henry Wilson R-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Charles Sturtevant Randall R-MA
- 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
- 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
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Edward Payson Allen R-MI
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Charles Eugene Belknap R-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Aaron Thomas Bliss R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Frank Willis Wheeler R-MI
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- John Lind R-MN
- Darwin Scott Hall R-MN
- Samuel Prather Snider R-MN
- Solomon Gilman Comstock R-MN
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson D-MO
- Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus R-MO
- William Medcalf Kinsey R-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- Thomas Henry Carter R-MT
- Henry Plummer Cheatham R-NC
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- Henry Clay Hansbrough R-ND
- 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
- Samuel Fowler D-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- James Way Covert D-NY
- William Copeland Wallace R-NY
- Edward John Dunphy D-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- John Quinn D-NY
- Moses Dunning Stivers R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Charles Junius Knapp R-NY
- John Adam Quackenbush R-NY
- John Henry Moffitt R-NY
- Frederick Lansing R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman 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 Raines R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John McClure Wiley D-NY
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- John Alexander Caldwell R-OH
- Elihu Stephen Williams R-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- Melvin Morella Boothman R-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- Robert Patterson Kennedy R-OH
- William Elisha Haynes D-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
- 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
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- John Edgar Reyburn R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Marriott Brosius R-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- John Winebrenner Rife 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
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- Thomas Ezekiel Miller R-SC
- John Alfred Pickler R-SD
- Alfred Alexander Taylor R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Henry Clay Evans R-TN
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- John Mercer Langston R-VA
- Paul Carrington Edmunds D-VA
- John Alexander Buchanan 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
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- Myron Hawley Mccord R-WI
- George Wesley Atkinson R-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Brooks Smith 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
- John Jefferson De Haven R-CA
- Thomas J. Geary D-CA
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- Washington Frederick Willcox D-CT
- Robert Bullock D-FL
- John David Stewart D-GA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Joseph Rea Reed R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- John Wilson Candler R-MA
- Joseph Henry Walker R-MA
- Herman Stump D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- John Charles Tarsney D-MO
- Nathan Frank R-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- James Laird R-NE
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer D-NJ
- Charles Dyer Beckwith R-NJ
- Horace Franklin Bartine R-NV
- 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 Tracey D-NY
- John Sanford R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- David B. Brunner D-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- William Elliott D-SC
- Oscar Sherman Gifford R-SD
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- Edmund Waddill Jr. R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Edward Carrington Venable D-VA
- Charles Barwig D-WI
- George H. Brickner D-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark 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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