To suspend rules and agree to conference report to H. R. 18347 (35 stat 406, 5/27/08), a bill appropriating for the service of the post office department for TH

On May 22, 1908, the House voted 143–155 (HR 18347). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 141–42, Democrats 2–115, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 44 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: 143
No: 155
Did not vote: 98
Date: May 22, 1908

By party

Democrats2 yes · 115 no · 53 didn’t vote
Republicans141 yes · 42 no · 45 didn’t vote
Others1 yes · 0 no

Who broke with their party

Richmond Pearson Hobson D-AL voted yes
Edwin Werter Higgins R-CT voted no
Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA voted no
Albert Foster Dawson R-IA voted no
Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA voted no
Walter Inglewood Smith R-IA voted no
James Perry Conner R-IA voted no
Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL voted no
James Robert Mann R-IL voted no
William Warfield Wilson R-IL voted no
Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL voted no
Frank Orren Lowden R-IL voted no
James Mckinney R-IL voted no
Joseph Verdi Graff R-IL voted no
John Crawford Chaney R-IN voted no
Clarence Chauncey Gilhams R-IN voted no
Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS voted no
James Monroe Miller R-KS voted no
William Augustus Reeder R-KS voted no
Victor Murdock R-KS voted no
Don Calvin Edwards R-KY voted no
Charles Elroy Townsend R-MI voted no
Charles Russell Davis R-MN voted no
Frank Mellen Nye R-MN voted no
Charles August Lindbergh R-MN voted no
Andrew John Volstead R-MN voted no
Halvor Steenerson R-MN voted no
John Frank Boyd R-NE voted no
Edmund Howard Hinshaw R-NE voted no
George William Norris R-NE voted no
Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE voted no
George Arthur Bartlett D-NV voted yes
James Breck Perkins R-NY voted no
Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH voted no
Henry Allen Cooper R-WI voted no
John Mandt Nelson R-WI voted no
William Joseph Cary R-WI voted no
William Henry Stafford R-WI voted no
John Jacob Esch R-WI voted no
James Henry Davidson R-WI voted no
Gustav Küstermann R-WI voted no
Elmer Addison Morse R-WI voted no
William Pallister Hubbard R-WV voted no
Harry Chapman Woodyard 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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Capitol Receipts, “To suspend rules and agree to conference…: House Vote, May 22, 1908,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/60-H-202/to-suspend-rules-and-agree-to-conference-report-to (accessed 2026-10-17).