House roll call 554 · 51st Congress · Feb 24, 1891
To recommit S. 172 to the comm. On judiciary. (p. 3226-2)
On Feb 24, 1891, the House voted 95–175 (S 172). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 6–143, Democrats 88–32, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 38 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
- 95
- No
- 175
- Did not vote
- 80
- Date
- Feb 24, 1891
By party
- Democrats88 yes · 32 no · 47 didn’t vote
- Republicans6 yes · 143 no · 33 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- John David Stewart D-GA voted no
- Joseph Henry Sweney R-IA voted yes
- Daniel Kerr R-IA voted yes
- Frank Lawler D-IL voted no
- Charles Augustus Hill R-IL voted yes
- 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
- Augustus Newton Martin D-IN voted no
- Charles A. O. Mcclellan D-IN voted no
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS voted yes
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS voted yes
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS voted yes
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY voted no
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD voted no
- Herman Stump D-MD voted no
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD voted no
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO voted no
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO voted no
- John Steele Henderson D-NC voted no
- James Way Covert D-NY voted no
- Felix Campbell D-NY voted no
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY voted no
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY voted no
- John McClure Wiley 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
- Samuel Dibble D-SC voted no
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC voted no
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC voted no
- William Hayne Perry D-SC voted no
- John James Hemphill D-SC voted no
- Posey Green Lester D-VA voted no
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA voted no
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA 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
- Thomas J. Geary D-CA
- Thomas Jefferson Clunie D-CA
- Washington Frederick Willcox D-CT
- 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
- Joseph Henry Sweney R-IA
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- Charles Augustus Hill R-IL
- 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 Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston 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
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- W. W. (William Worth) Dickerson D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Andrew Price D-LA
- John Forrester Andrew D-MA
- Joseph Henry O'Neil D-MA
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson D-MO
- Richard Henry Norton D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone 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
- Samuel Fowler D-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Edward John Dunphy D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Richard Vaux D-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- James Kerr D-PA
- George William Dargan D-SC
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington 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
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Paul Carrington Edmunds D-VA
- John Alexander Buchanan D-VA
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- John Van Mcduffie R-AL
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- Hosea Townsend R-CO
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- Frederick Miles R-CT
- John David Stewart D-GA
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- John Fletcher Lacey R-IA
- Edward Retilla Hays R-IA
- James Patton Flick R-IA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Abner Taylor R-IL
- 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
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-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
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Augustus Newton Martin D-IN
- Charles A. O. Mcclellan D-IN
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY
- John Henry Wilson R-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Hamilton Dudley Coleman R-LA
- Elijah Adams Morse R-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
- Rodney Wallace R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Herman Stump D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Henry Stockbridge Jr. R-MD
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd 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
- Charles Eugene Belknap R-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-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
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus R-MO
- William Medcalf Kinsey R-MO
- Thomas Henry Carter R-MT
- Henry Plummer Cheatham R-NC
- John Morehead Brower 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
- Alonzo Nute R-NH
- Orren Cheney Moore R-NH
- Christopher Augustus Bergen R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- James Way Covert D-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- William Copeland Wallace R-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY
- Moses Dunning Stivers R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Charles Junius Knapp 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 McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- John McClure Wiley D-NY
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- John Alexander Caldwell R-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
- 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
- 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
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- Thomas Ezekiel Miller R-SC
- John Alfred Pickler R-SD
- Oscar Sherman Gifford R-SD
- Alfred Alexander Taylor R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Henry Clay Evans R-TN
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- Edmund Waddill Jr. R-VA
- John Mercer Langston R-VA
- Posey Green Lester D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- 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
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- Myron Hawley Mccord 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
- Louis Washington Turpin D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- William Henderson Cate D-AR
- John Jefferson De Haven R-CA
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- William Edgar Simonds R-CT
- Robert Bullock D-FL
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Joseph Rea Reed R-IA
- Willis Sweet R-ID
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Harrison Kelley R-KS
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Charles Jahleal Boatner D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Charles Sturtevant Randall R-MA
- John Wilson Candler R-MA
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- John Charles Tarsney D-MO
- Nathan Frank R-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- Gilbert Lafayette Laws R-NE
- 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
- John Quinn D-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- John Adam Quackenbush R-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- Elihu Stephen Williams R-OH
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney 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
- John Winebrenner Rife R-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- Samuel Alfred Craig R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- William Elliott D-SC
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Edward Carrington Venable D-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Charles Barwig D-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-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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