To suspend the rules and agree to Senate amendments to H. R. 18347 (35 stat 406, 5/27/08), post office appropriations for fiscal 1908. The amendments relates t

On May 23, 1908, the House voted 145–153 (HR 18347). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 148–38, Democrats 3–124, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 41 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: 145
No: 153
Did not vote: 85
Date: May 23, 1908

By party

Democrats3 yes · 124 no · 43 didn’t vote
Republicans148 yes · 38 no · 42 didn’t vote
Others1 yes · 0 no

Who broke with their party

Richmond Pearson Hobson D-AL voted yes
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
George Edmund Foss R-IL voted no
Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL voted no
James Mckinney R-IL voted no
George Washington Prince R-IL voted no
Joseph Verdi Graff R-IL voted no
Pleasant Thomas Chapman 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
James Albertus Tawney R-MN voted no
Charles Russell Davis 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 Arthur Bartlett D-NV voted yes
James Breck Perkins R-NY voted no
Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH voted no
William Atkinson Jones D-VA voted yes
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
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 the rules and agree to Senate…: House Vote, May 23, 1908,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/60-H-215/to-suspend-the-rules-and-agree-to-senate-amendments (accessed 2026-10-17).