To proceed to consideration of H.R. 15744.

On Mar 16, 1906, the House voted 140–32 (HR 15744). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 71–30, Democrats 69–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 32 members voted against their own party.

During the 59th Congress (1905–1906), Theodore Roosevelt was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 140
No: 32
Did not vote: 226
Date: Mar 16, 1906

By party

Democrats69 yes · 2 no · 69 didn’t vote
Republicans71 yes · 30 no · 157 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Franklin Eli Brooks R-CO voted no
Benjamin Pixley Birdsall R-IA voted no
Robert Gordon Cousins R-IA voted no
William Peters Hepburn R-IA voted no
Walter Inglewood Smith R-IA voted no
James Perry Conner R-IA voted no
Jesse Overstreet R-IN voted no
Abraham Lincoln Brick R-IN voted no
Victor Murdock R-KS voted no
Edwin Denby R-MI voted no
George Alvin Loud R-MI voted no
Ernest Edward Wood D-MO voted no
John James Gardner R-NJ voted no
William Bourke Cockran D-NY voted no
Jacob Van Vechten Olcott R-NY voted no
William Stiles Bennet R-NY voted no
Michael Edward Driscoll R-NY voted no
Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY voted no
Nicholas Longworth R-OH voted no
Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH voted no
James Harding Southard R-OH voted no
Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH voted no
Capell Lane Weems R-OH voted no
Martin Luther Smyser R-OH voted no
Robert Adams Jr. R-PA voted no
Edmund William Samuel R-PA voted no
Marlin Edgar Olmsted R-PA voted no
William Harrison Graham R-PA voted no
John Dalzell R-PA voted no
Francis Wellington Cushman R-WA voted no
Webster Everett Brown R-WI voted no
James Anthony Hughes R-WV 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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