To recess until 11.30 tomorrow morning, made during debate on H. R. 21260.

On May 5, 1908, the House voted 74–154. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 64–73, Democrats 9–81, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 73 members voted against their own party.

During the 60th Congress (1907–1908), Theodore Roosevelt was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 74
No: 154
Did not vote: 171
Date: May 5, 1908

By party

Democrats9 yes · 81 no · 80 didn’t vote
Republicans64 yes · 73 no · 91 didn’t vote
Others1 yes · 0 no

Who broke with their party

Robert Bruce Macon D-AR voted yes
Everis Anson Hayes R-CA voted yes
James Carson Needham R-CA voted yes
Sylvester Clark Smith R-CA voted yes
Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA voted yes
Benjamin Pixley Birdsall R-IA voted yes
Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA voted yes
Daniel Webster Hamilton D-IA voted yes
John Albert Tiffin Hull R-IA voted yes
Walter Inglewood Smith R-IA voted yes
Elbert Hamilton Hubbard R-IA voted yes
James Robert Mann R-IL voted yes
Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted yes
William Lorimer R-IL voted yes
George Edmund Foss R-IL voted yes
Jesse Overstreet R-IN voted yes
John Alfred Adair D-IN voted yes
Charles Beary Landis R-IN voted yes
Clarence Chauncey Gilhams R-IN voted yes
Charles Frederick Scott R-KS voted yes
James Monroe Miller R-KS voted yes
William Alexander Calderhead R-KS voted yes
William Augustus Reeder R-KS voted yes
Edmond Haggard Madison R-KS voted yes
Charles Quincy Tirrell R-MA voted yes
Samuel Walker Mccall R-MA voted yes
John Wingate Weeks R-MA voted yes
William Stedman Greene R-MA voted yes
Amos Lawrence Allen R-ME voted yes
Washington Gardner R-MI voted yes
Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI voted yes
James Albertus Tawney R-MN voted yes
Winfield Scott Hammond D-MN voted yes
Charles Russell Davis R-MN voted yes
Frank Mellen Nye R-MN voted yes
Andrew John Volstead R-MN voted yes
Halvor Steenerson R-MN voted yes
Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO voted yes
Richard Bartholdt R-MO voted yes
Henry Stewart Caulfield R-MO voted yes
Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE voted yes
William Henry Draper R-NY voted yes
George Newell Southwick R-NY voted yes
George Roland Malby R-NY voted yes
Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY voted yes
James Breck Perkins R-NY voted yes
Edward Butterfield Vreeland R-NY voted yes
Herman Philip Goebel R-OH voted yes
John Eugene Harding R-OH voted yes
Henry Towne Bannon R-OH voted yes
Grant Earl Mouser R-OH voted yes
Jay Ford Laning R-OH voted yes
Thomas David Nicholls D-PA voted yes
Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA voted yes
Marlin Edgar Olmsted R-PA voted yes
Charles Frederick Barclay R-PA voted yes
George Franklin Huff R-PA voted yes
Arthur Laban Bates R-PA voted yes
John Dalzell R-PA voted yes
Andrew Jackson Barchfeld R-PA voted yes
Philo Hall R-SD voted yes
John Austin Moon D-TN voted yes
Joseph Howell R-UT voted yes
Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA voted yes
Kittredge Haskins R-VT voted yes
Henry Allen Cooper R-WI voted yes
John Mandt Nelson R-WI voted yes
James William Murphy D-WI voted yes
William Henry Stafford R-WI voted yes
John Jacob Esch R-WI voted yes
Gustav Küstermann R-WI voted yes
John James Jenkins R-WI voted yes
George Cookman Sturgiss R-WV voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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Capitol Receipts, “To recess until 11.30 tomorrow morning, made…: House Vote, May 5, 1908,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/60-H-124/to-recess-until-11-30-tomorrow-morning-made-during (accessed 2026-10-17).