To order the previous question, it being agreeing to the amendment to the substitute to H.R. 17536 (16 stat 5393 6/18/1910), creating a commerce court and amend

On May 10, 1910, the House voted 161–169 (HR 17536). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 157–30, Democrats 4–140. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 34 members voted against their own party.

During the 61st Congress (1909–1910), William Howard Taft was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 161
No: 169
Did not vote: 71
Date: May 10, 1910

By party

Democrats4 yes · 140 no · 36 didn’t vote
Republicans157 yes · 30 no · 35 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Edward Stevens Henry R-CT voted no
Nehemiah Day Sperry R-CT voted no
Edwin Werter Higgins R-CT voted no
Ebenezer J. Hill R-CT voted no
John Quillin Tilson R-CT voted no
Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA voted no
Nathan Edward Kendall R-IA voted no
Frank Plowman Woods R-IA voted no
Elbert Hamilton Hubbard R-IA voted no
Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL voted no
Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA voted no
Charles Grenfill Washburn R-MA voted no
Charles Quincy Tirrell R-MA voted no
Butler Ames R-MA voted no
Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA voted no
Ernest William Roberts R-MA voted no
John Wingate Weeks R-MA voted no
William Stedman Greene R-MA voted no
Charles Russell Davis R-MN voted no
Charles August Lindbergh R-MN voted no
Asle Jorgenson Gronna R-ND voted no
Frank Dunklee Currier R-NH voted no
Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ voted no
William Halsted Wiley R-NJ voted no
William Henry Draper R-NY voted no
James Smith Havens D-NY voted yes
William Paine Sheffield R-RI voted no
Gordon James Russell D-TX voted yes
Oscar William Gillespie D-TX voted yes
Edward Watts Saunders D-VA voted yes
Miles Poindexter R-WA voted no
John Mandt Nelson R-WI voted no
William Joseph Cary R-WI voted no
Irvine Luther Lenroot R-WI 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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