Senate roll call 35 · 59th Congress · May 11, 1906
To amend bill H.R. 12987, by allowing the commission to determine the proportions of the entire traffic of any carrier whose interstate rates have been challeng
On May 11, 1906, the Senate voted 27–48 (HR 12987). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 2–49, Democrats 25–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 2 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
- 27
- No
- 48
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- May 11, 1906
By party
- Democrats25 yes · 0 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans2 yes · 49 no · 10 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Frank Allee R-DE voted yes
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Edmund Winston Pettus D-AL
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- James Paul Clarke D-AR
- Henry Moore Teller D-CO
- James Frank Allee R-DE
- James Piper Taliaferro D-FL
- Alexander Stephens Clay D-GA
- Augustus Octavius Bacon D-GA
- Fred Thomas Dubois D-ID
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Isidor Rayner D-MD
- Anselm Joseph Mclaurin D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- William Andrews Clark D-MT
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC
- Lee Slater Overman D-NC
- Francis Griffith Newlands D-NV
- John McDermeid Gearin D-OR
- Asbury Churchwell Latimer D-SC
- Benjamin Ryan Tillman D-SC
- James Beriah Frazier D-TN
- Charles Allen Culberson D-TX
- Joseph Weldon Bailey D-TX
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- Thomas Staples Martin D-VA
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- Frank Putnam Flint R-CA
- George Clement Perkins R-CA
- Frank Bosworth Brandegee R-CT
- Morgan Gardner Bulkeley R-CT
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- Albert Jeremiah Beveridge R-IN
- James Alexander Hemenway R-IN
- Chester Isaiah Long R-KS
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- Winthrop Murray Crane R-MA
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Russell Alexander Alger R-MI
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Moses Edwin Clapp R-MN
- William Warner R-MO
- Thomas Henry Carter R-MT
- Henry Clay Hansbrough R-ND
- Porter James Mccumber R-ND
- Elmer Jacob Burkett R-NE
- Joseph Hopkins Millard R-NE
- Henry Eben Burnham R-NH
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- John Fairfield Dryden R-NJ
- John Kean R-NJ
- George Stuart Nixon R-NV
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Charles William Frederick Dick R-OH
- Joseph Benson Foraker R-OH
- Charles William Fulton R-OR
- Boies Penrose R-PA
- Philander Chase Knox R-PA
- George Peabody Wetmore R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Alfred Beard Kittredge R-SD
- Robert Jackson Gamble R-SD
- George Sutherland R-UT
- Reed Smoot R-UT
- William Paul Dillingham R-VT
- Levi Ankeny R-WA
- Samuel Henry Piles R-WA
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
- Nathan Bay Scott R-WV
- Stephen Benton Elkins R-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
- Francis Emroy Warren R-WY
Did not vote
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO
- Henry Algernon Du Pont R-DE
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- Weldon Brinton Heyburn R-ID
- Alfred Washburn Benson R-KS
- Charles Curtis R-KS
- Joseph Ralph Burton R-KS
- Murphy James Foster D-LA
- Samuel Douglas Mcenery D-LA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- William Alden Smith R-MI
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- Chauncey Mitchell Depew R-NY
- Frederick William Mulkey R-OR
- Edward Ward Carmack D-TN
- Redfield Proctor R-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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