To recommit with instructions to the comm. On appropriations, H.R. 12122 (app. Mar. 3, 1899, 30 stat 1024), a bill making naval appropriation for 1900, so it wi

On Feb 23, 1899, the House voted 80–144 (HR 12122). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 74–50, Democrats 5–77, Others 1–18. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 55 members voted against their own party.

During the 55th Congress (1897–1898), William McKinley was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 80
No: 144
Did not vote: 146
Date: Feb 23, 1899

By party

Democrats5 yes · 77 no · 50 didn’t vote
Republicans74 yes · 50 no · 88 didn’t vote
Others1 yes · 18 no · 8 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

William Farrington Aldrich R-AL voted no
John Hollis Bankhead D-AL voted yes
Eugene Francis Loud R-CA voted no
Edward Stevens Henry R-CT voted no
George Martin Curtis R-IA voted no
Thomas Updegraff R-IA voted no
William Peters Hepburn R-IA voted no
Alva Lysander Hager R-IA voted no
Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA voted no
James Robert Mann R-IL voted no
Hugh Reid Belknap R-IL voted no
Daniel Webster Mills R-IL voted no
Henry Sherman Boutell R-IL voted no
Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL voted no
George Washington Prince R-IL voted no
Walter Reeves R-IL voted no
Joseph Verdi Graff R-IL voted no
James Austin Connolly R-IL voted no
George Washington Smith R-IL voted no
Charles Beary Landis R-IN voted no
Edgar Dean Crumpacker R-IN voted no
Case Broderick R-KS voted no
Albert Seaton Berry D-KY voted yes
Samuel Johnson Pugh R-KY voted no
Adolph Meyer D-LA voted yes
Isaac Ambrose Barber R-MD voted no
William Benjamin Baker R-MD voted no
Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD voted no
John Blaisdell Corliss R-MI voted no
Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI voted no
Roswell Peter Bishop R-MI voted no
Rousseau Owen Crump R-MI voted no
William Smith Mesick R-MI voted no
Carlos Douglas Shelden R-MI voted no
Loren Fletcher R-MN voted no
Frank Marion Eddy R-MN voted no
Martin Nelson Johnson R-ND voted no
Thomas Mcewan Jr. R-NJ voted no
James Robinson Howe R-NY voted no
Amos Jay Cummings D-NY voted yes
Aaron Van Schaick Cochrane R-NY voted no
James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY voted no
William Bunn Shattuc R-OH voted no
Seth W. Brown R-OH voted no
Walter Lowrie Weaver R-OH voted no
Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH voted no
Winfield Scott Kerr R-OH voted no
Charles William Frederick Dick R-OH voted no
William Mcaleer D-PA voted yes
Walter Preston Brownlow R-TN voted no
Henry Richard Gibson R-TN voted no
Henry Allen Cooper R-WI voted no
Theobald Otjen R-WI voted no
Edward Sloman Minor R-WI voted no
John James Jenkins R-WI voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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