House roll call 92 · 52nd Congress · Apr 29, 1892
To excuse MR. WM w. Bowers of california for not attending a sitting of the house, motion made during proceedings under the call of the house.
On Apr 29, 1892, the House voted 123–53. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 108–51, Republicans 10–1, Others 5–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 52 members voted against their own party.
During the 52nd Congress (1891–1892), Benjamin Harrison was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 123
- No
- 53
- Did not vote
- 164
- Date
- Apr 29, 1892
By party
- Democrats108 yes · 51 no · 84 didn’t vote
- Republicans10 yes · 1 no · 78 didn’t vote
- Others5 yes · 1 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Richard Henry Clarke D-AL voted no
- William Calvin Oates D-AL voted no
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR voted no
- William Leake Terry D-AR voted no
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL voted no
- Leonidas Felix Livingston D-GA voted no
- James Henderson Blount D-GA voted no
- Robert William Everett D-GA voted no
- John Joseph Seerley D-IA voted no
- Walter Halben Butler D-IA voted no
- Lewis Steward D-IL voted no
- Edward Lane D-IL voted no
- William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire D-IN voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN voted no
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY voted no
- William McMahon Mckaig D-MD voted no
- James Sedgwick Gorman D-MI voted no
- James O'Donnell R-MI voted no
- Henry Melville Youmans D-MI voted no
- Osee Matson Hall D-MN voted no
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO voted no
- David Albaugh De Armond D-MO voted no
- John Mills Allen D-MS voted no
- John Curtis Kyle D-MS voted no
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS voted no
- William Wirt Dixon D-MT voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Grady D-NC voted no
- William Thomas Crawford D-NC voted no
- Luther Franklin Mckinney D-NH voted no
- Edward Francis Mcdonald D-NJ voted no
- John R. Fellows D-NY voted no
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY voted no
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH voted no
- Albert Jackson Pearson D-OH voted no
- Tom Loftin Johnson D-OH voted no
- William Elliott D-SC voted no
- Henry Clay Snodgrass D-TN voted no
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN voted no
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN voted no
- Nicholas Nichols Cox D-TN voted no
- John Benjamin Long D-TX voted no
- Joseph Weldon Bailey D-TX voted no
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX voted no
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX voted no
- James Fletcher Epes D-VA voted no
- Paul Carrington Edmunds D-VA voted no
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA voted no
- Clinton Babbitt D-WI voted no
- Charles Barwig D-WI voted no
- Allen Ralph Bushnell D-WI voted no
- Frank Potter Coburn D-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- William Henderson Cate D-AR
- Anthony Caminetti D-CA
- Washington Frederick Willcox D-CT
- Robert Elliott De Forest D-CT
- Robert Bullock D-FL
- Charles Leavell Moses D-GA
- Thomas Elisha Winn D-GA
- Thomas Edward Watson D-GA
- Frederick Edward White D-IA
- Lawrence Edward Mcgann D-IL
- Herman Wilber Snow D-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- Jason Brevoort Brown D-IN
- David Henry Patton D-IN
- Augustus Newton Martin D-IN
- Charles A. O. Mcclellan D-IN
- Case Broderick R-KS
- Benjamin Hutchinson Clover O-KS
- John Grant Otis O-KS
- John Davis O-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
- Adolph Meyer D-LA
- Matthew Diamond Lagan D-LA
- Andrew Price D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Charles Jahleal Boatner D-LA
- Charles Sturtevant Randall R-MA
- John Forrester Andrew D-MA
- Joseph Henry O'Neil D-MA
- Moses Tyler Stevens D-MA
- George Fred Williams D-MA
- Frederick Spaulding Coolidge D-MA
- John Crawford Crosby D-MA
- Henry Page D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Isidor Rayner D-MD
- Byron Gray Stout D-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Harrison H. Wheeler D-MI
- Thomas Addis Emmet Weadock D-MI
- Kittel Halvorson O-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Clarke Lewis D-MS
- Joseph Henry Beeman D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- William Augustus Blount Branch D-NC
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn D-NC
- Archibald Hunter Arrington Williams D-NC
- Sydenham Benoni Alexander D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- William Jennings Bryan D-NE
- Omer Madison Kem O-NE
- Cornelius Andrew Cadmus D-NJ
- Thomas Dunn English D-NJ
- Alfred Clark Chapin D-NY
- William Jerome Coombs D-NY
- William Bourke Cockran D-NY
- John De Witt Warner D-NY
- Isaac Newton Cox D-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- George Washington Ray R-NY
- Hosea Hunt Rockwell D-NY
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY
- Bellamy Storer R-OH
- George Washington Houk D-OH
- Martin Kissinger Gantz D-OH
- Fernando Coello Layton D-OH
- Dennis D. Donovan D-OH
- William Elisha Haynes D-OH
- John M. Pattison D-OH
- James W. Owens D-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Mcaleer D-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Edwin Hallowell D-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- David B. Brunner D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- Albert Cole Hopkins R-PA
- Frank Eckels Beltzhoover D-PA
- Alexander Kerr Craig D-PA
- Eugene Pierce Gillespie D-PA
- Matthew Griswold R-PA
- George Frederic Kribbs D-PA
- Oscar Lapham D-RI
- Charles Harrison Page D-RI
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- George Washington Shell D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Josiah Patterson D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Posey Green Lester D-VA
- Elisha Edward Meredith D-VA
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
- Horace Henry Powers R-VT
- John Lendrum Mitchell D-WI
- George H. Brickner D-WI
- Lucas Miltiades Miller D-WI
- Thomas Lynch D-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- James Capehart D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Richard Henry Clarke D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- William Leake Terry D-AR
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- Leonidas Felix Livingston D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Robert William Everett D-GA
- John Joseph Seerley D-IA
- Walter Halben Butler D-IA
- Lewis Steward D-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- William Baker O-KS
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- William McMahon Mckaig D-MD
- James Sedgwick Gorman D-MI
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Henry Melville Youmans D-MI
- Osee Matson Hall D-MN
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- David Albaugh De Armond D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- John Curtis Kyle D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- William Wirt Dixon D-MT
- Benjamin Franklin Grady D-NC
- William Thomas Crawford D-NC
- Luther Franklin Mckinney D-NH
- Edward Francis Mcdonald D-NJ
- John R. Fellows D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Albert Jackson Pearson D-OH
- Tom Loftin Johnson D-OH
- William Elliott D-SC
- Henry Clay Snodgrass D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Nicholas Nichols Cox D-TN
- John Benjamin Long D-TX
- Joseph Weldon Bailey D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- James Fletcher Epes D-VA
- Paul Carrington Edmunds D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- Clinton Babbitt D-WI
- Charles Barwig D-WI
- Allen Ralph Bushnell D-WI
- Frank Potter Coburn D-WI
Did not vote
- Louis Washington Turpin D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Thomas J. Geary D-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- Samuel Greeley Hilborn R-CA
- John Tyler Cutting R-CA
- Eugene Francis Loud R-CA
- William Wallace Bowers R-CA
- Hosea Townsend R-CO
- Lewis Sperry D-CT
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- John Williams Causey D-DE
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Thomas Graves Lawson D-GA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- John Taylor Hamilton D-IA
- John Albert Tiffin Hull R-IA
- James Patton Flick R-IA
- Thomas Bowman D-IA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- George Douglas Perkins R-IA
- Willis Sweet R-ID
- Abner Taylor R-IL
- Allan Cathcart Durborow Jr. D-IL
- Walter Cass Newberry D-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- Benjamin Taylor Cable D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Owen Scott D-IL
- Samuel Thompson Busey D-IL
- George Washington Fithian D-IL
- William St. John Forman D-IL
- James Robert Williams D-IL
- George Washington Smith R-IL
- William Fletcher Parrett D-IN
- John Lewis Bretz D-IN
- George William Cooper D-IN
- Henry Underwood Johnson R-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Daniel Webster Waugh R-IN
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Jeremiah (Jerry) Simpson O-KS
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY
- John Wilkerson Kendall D-KY
- Joseph Morgan Kendall D-KY
- John Henry Wilson R-KY
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Elijah Adams Morse R-MA
- Sherman Hoar D-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- Joseph Henry Walker R-MA
- John Brewer Brown D-MD
- Herman Stump D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Charles Eugene Belknap R-MI
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson R-MI
- William Henry Harries D-MN
- John Lind R-MN
- James Nathan Castle D-MN
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson D-MO
- John Charles Tarsney D-MO
- Richard Henry Norton D-MO
- Seth Wallace Cobb D-MO
- Samuel Byrns D-MO
- Robert Washington Fyan D-MO
- Marshall Arnold D-MO
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Henry Plummer Cheatham R-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Martin Nelson Johnson R-ND
- William Arthur Mckeighan O-NE
- Warren Fisher Daniell D-NH
- Christopher Augustus Bergen R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer D-NJ
- Samuel Fowler D-NJ
- Horace Franklin Bartine R-NV
- James Way Covert D-NY
- John Michael Clancy D-NY
- Thomas Francis Magner D-NY
- Edward John Dunphy D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Joseph James Little D-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- John Adam Quackenbush R-NY
- John Sanford R-NY
- John Madison Wever R-NY
- Newton Martin Curtis R-NY
- Henry Wilbur Bentley D-NY
- George Van Horn D-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- John Raines R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY
- Thomas Lathrop Bunting D-NY
- Warren Brewster Hooker R-NY
- John Alexander Caldwell R-OH
- Darius Dodge Hare D-OH
- Robert Eachus Doan R-OH
- William Henry Enochs R-OH
- James Irvine Dungan D-OH
- Michael Daniel Harter D-OH
- John George Warwick D-OH
- Lewis Philip Ohliger D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Vincent Albert Taylor R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- John Edgar Reyburn R-PA
- John Buchanan Robinson R-PA
- Marriott Brosius R-PA
- Lemuel Amerman D-PA
- George Washington Shonk R-PA
- John Winebrenner Rife R-PA
- Myron Benjamin Wright R-PA
- Simon Peter Wolverton D-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Edward Scull R-PA
- George Franklin Huff R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- William Alexis Stone R-PA
- Andrew Stewart R-PA
- William Allen Sipe D-PA
- Charles Warren Stone R-PA
- William Huggins Brawley D-SC
- George Johnstone D-SC
- Eli Thomas Stackhouse D-SC
- John Lowndes Mclaurin D-SC
- John Alfred Pickler R-SD
- John Lawlor Jolley R-SD
- Alfred Alexander Taylor R-TN
- John Chiles Houk R-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- Edwin Le Roy Antony D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- John William Lawson D-VA
- John Alexander Buchanan D-VA
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- John Lockwood Wilson R-WA
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- John Overton Pendleton D-WV
- John Duffy Alderson D-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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