House roll call 169 · 61st Congress · Feb 17, 1911
To move the previous question on the motion to postpone consideration of the conference report on H.R. 28406. (p. 2793-1, 2795-1, 2796-1)
On Feb 17, 1911, the House voted 172–80 (HR 28406). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 48–80, Democrats 124–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 48 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
- 172
- No
- 80
- Did not vote
- 150
- Date
- Feb 17, 1911
By party
- Democrats124 yes · 0 no · 56 didn’t vote
- Republicans48 yes · 80 no · 94 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Joseph Russell Knowland R-CA voted yes
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA voted yes
- James Mclachlan R-CA voted yes
- Charles Edgar Pickett R-IA voted yes
- James William Good R-IA voted yes
- George Washington Prince R-IL voted yes
- John Allen Sterling R-IL voted yes
- Pleasant Thomas Chapman R-IL voted yes
- Napoleon Bonaparte Thistlewood R-IL voted yes
- John Wesley Langley R-KY voted yes
- Don Calvin Edwards R-KY voted yes
- Charles Grenfill Washburn R-MA voted yes
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA voted yes
- George Alexander Pearre R-MD voted yes
- Charles Elroy Townsend R-MI voted yes
- Gerrit John Diekema R-MI voted yes
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI voted yes
- Francis Henry Dodds R-MI voted yes
- Horace Olin Young R-MI voted yes
- Politte Elvins R-MO voted yes
- Charles Henry Morgan R-MO voted yes
- Charles Holden Cowles R-NC voted yes
- John Gaston Grant R-NC voted yes
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE voted yes
- Cyrus Adams Sulloway R-NH voted yes
- Charles Blakeslee Law R-NY voted yes
- Herbert Parsons R-NY voted yes
- Jacob Van Vechten Olcott R-NY voted yes
- William Stiles Bennet R-NY voted yes
- George Roland Malby R-NY voted yes
- Michael Edward Driscoll R-NY voted yes
- De Alva Stanwood Alexander R-NY voted yes
- Ralph Dayton Cole R-OH voted yes
- Adna Romulus Johnson R-OH voted yes
- David Adams Hollingsworth R-OH voted yes
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK voted yes
- Charles Edward Creager R-OK voted yes
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR voted yes
- Alfred Buckwalter Garner R-PA voted yes
- Jonathan Nicholas Langham R-PA voted yes
- James Francis Burke R-PA voted yes
- Eben Wever Martin R-SD voted yes
- Zachary David Massey R-TN voted yes
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN voted yes
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA voted yes
- Frank Plumley R-VT voted yes
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI voted yes
- Elmer Addison Morse R-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- George Washington Taylor D-AL
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- Henry De Lamar Clayton D-AL
- William Benjamin Craig D-AL
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL
- William Richardson D-AL
- Oscar Wilder Underwood D-AL
- Robert Bruce Macon D-AR
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR
- John Charles Floyd D-AR
- Joseph Taylor Robinson D-AR
- Robert Minor Wallace D-AR
- Joseph Russell Knowland R-CA
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA
- James Mclachlan R-CA
- Atterson Walden Rucker D-CO
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Stephen Milancthon Sparkman D-FL
- Dannite Hill Mays D-FL
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA
- Dudley Mays Hughes D-GA
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- Leonidas Felix Livingston D-GA
- Charles Lafayette Bartlett D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Charles Edgar Pickett R-IA
- James William Good R-IA
- William Darius Jamieson D-IA
- George Washington Prince R-IL
- John Allen Sterling R-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- James McMahon Graham D-IL
- Martin David Foster D-IL
- Pleasant Thomas Chapman R-IL
- Napoleon Bonaparte Thistlewood R-IL
- William Allen Cullop D-IN
- William Elijah Cox D-IN
- Ralph Wilbur Moss D-IN
- Charles Alexander Korbly D-IN
- John Alfred Adair D-IN
- Martin Andrew Morrison D-IN
- George Washington Rauch D-IN
- Cyrus Cline D-IN
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- Augustus Owsley Stanley D-KY
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- Harvey Helm D-KY
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- Don Calvin Edwards R-KY
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA
- Robert Charles Wickliffe D-LA
- Arsène Paulin Pujo D-LA
- Charles Grenfill Washburn R-MA
- John Joseph Mitchell D-MA
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA
- John Austin Keliher D-MA
- Joseph Francis O'Connell D-MA
- Andrew James Peters D-MA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- George Alexander Pearre R-MD
- Charles Elroy Townsend R-MI
- Gerrit John Diekema R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Francis Henry Dodds R-MI
- Horace Olin Young R-MI
- Winfield Scott Hammond D-MN
- James Tilghman Lloyd D-MO
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- William Patterson Borland D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO
- Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- Politte Elvins R-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan R-MO
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS
- Thomas Spight D-MS
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- William Alexander Dickson D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- Charles Randolph Thomas D-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- Robert Newton Page D-NC
- Charles Holden Cowles R-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- John Gaston Grant R-NC
- John Arthur Maguire D-NE
- Gilbert Monell Hitchcock D-NE
- James Polk Latta D-NE
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE
- Cyrus Adams Sulloway R-NH
- William Hughes D-NJ
- Charles Blakeslee Law R-NY
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- Herbert Parsons R-NY
- Jacob Van Vechten Olcott R-NY
- Francis Burton Harrison D-NY
- William Stiles Bennet R-NY
- George Roland Malby R-NY
- Michael Edward Driscoll R-NY
- James Smith Havens D-NY
- Daniel Angelus Driscoll D-NY
- De Alva Stanwood Alexander R-NY
- James Middleton Cox D-OH
- William Ellsworth Tou Velle D-OH
- Matthew Rombach Denver D-OH
- Ralph Dayton Cole R-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Adna Romulus Johnson R-OH
- Carl Carey Anderson D-OH
- David Adams Hollingsworth R-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- Charles Edward Creager R-OK
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Thomas David Nicholls D-PA
- Alfred Buckwalter Garner R-PA
- John Hoover Rothermel D-PA
- John Geiser Mchenry D-PA
- Jonathan Nicholas Langham R-PA
- James Francis Burke R-PA
- George Swinton Legaré D-SC
- Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- Joseph Travis Johnson D-SC
- David Edward Finley D-SC
- James Edwin Ellerbe D-SC
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- Eben Wever Martin R-SD
- Zachary David Massey R-TN
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- William Cannon Houston D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- George Washington Gordon D-TN
- Morris Sheppard D-TX
- Martin Dies D-TX
- Choice Boswell Randell D-TX
- James Andrew (Jack) Beall D-TX
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- Albert Sidney Burleson D-TX
- Robert Lee Henry D-TX
- John Hall Stephens D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- William Robert Smith D-TX
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- Harry Lee Maynard D-VA
- John Lamb D-VA
- Robert Turnbull D-VA
- Carter Glass D-VA
- James Hay D-VA
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- Frank Plumley R-VT
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- Elmer Addison Morse R-WI
How each representative voted: No
- William Fellows Englebright R-CA
- James Carson Needham R-CA
- Edward Stevens Henry R-CT
- Ebenezer J. Hill R-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- Albert Foster Dawson R-IA
- Nathan Edward Kendall R-IA
- John Albert Tiffin Hull R-IA
- Walter Inglewood Smith R-IA
- Frank Plowman Woods R-IA
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- William James Moxley R-IL
- Henry Sherman Boutell R-IL
- George Edmund Foss R-IL
- Howard Malcolm Snapp R-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- Frank Orren Lowden R-IL
- James Mckinney R-IL
- Joseph Verdi Graff R-IL
- William Brown Mckinley R-IL
- William Oscar Barnard R-IN
- Edgar Dean Crumpacker R-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- William Augustus Reeder R-KS
- Edmond Haggard Madison R-KS
- George Pelton Lawrence R-MA
- Butler Ames R-MA
- Ernest William Roberts R-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- John Philip Swasey R-ME
- Frank Edward Guernsey R-ME
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- Frederick Clement Stevens R-MN
- Frank Mellen Nye R-MN
- Charles August Lindbergh R-MN
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- Charles Nelson Pray R-MT
- Louis Benjamin Hanna R-ND
- Edmund Howard Hinshaw R-NE
- George William Norris R-NE
- Frank Dunklee Currier R-NH
- John James Gardner R-NJ
- Benjamin Franklin Howell R-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- William Halsted Wiley R-NJ
- William Willets Cocks R-NY
- John Emory Andrus R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- William Henry Draper R-NY
- John Wilbur Dwight R-NY
- Jacob Sloat Fassett R-NY
- Edward Butterfield Vreeland R-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Herman Philip Goebel R-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- Edward Livingston Taylor Jr. R-OH
- William Aubrey Thomas R-OH
- Leonard Paul Howland R-OH
- James Henry Cassidy R-OH
- Bird Segle Mcguire R-OK
- William Russell Ellis R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- Henry Wilbur Palmer R-PA
- Charles Clarence Pratt R-PA
- Allen Foster Cooper R-PA
- Nelson Platt Wheeler R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Andrew Jackson Barchfeld R-PA
- Charles Henry Burke R-SD
- Joseph Howell R-UT
- William Ewart Humphrey R-WA
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- William Henry Stafford R-WI
- Gustav Küstermann R-WI
Did not vote
- Richmond Pearson Hobson D-AL
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- Charles Chester Reid D-AR
- Duncan E. Mckinlay R-CA
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- Sylvester Clark Smith R-CA
- Nehemiah Day Sperry R-CT
- Edwin Werter Higgins R-CT
- William Henry Heald R-DE
- Frank Clark D-FL
- James Mathews Griggs D-GA
- Seaborn Anderson Roddenbery D-GA
- William Marcellus Howard D-GA
- Thomas William Hardwick D-GA
- William Gordon Brantley D-GA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- Elbert Hamilton Hubbard R-IA
- Thomas Ray Hamer R-ID
- William Warfield Wilson R-IL
- James Thomas Mcdermott D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- William Lorimer R-IL
- Frederick Lundin R-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- William August Rodenberg R-IL
- John William Boehne D-IN
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN
- Charles Frederick Scott R-KS
- James Monroe Miller R-KS
- William Alexander Calderhead R-KS
- Victor Murdock R-KS
- Ollie Murray James D-KY
- Joseph Lafayette Rhinock D-KY
- Joseph Bentley Bennett R-KY
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- Samuel Louis Gilmore D-LA
- Robert Foligny Broussard D-LA
- Joseph Eugene Ransdell D-LA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- Charles Quincy Tirrell R-MA
- Samuel Walker Mccall R-MA
- John Wingate Weeks R-MA
- Eugene Noble Foss D-MA
- William Croad Lovering R-MA
- James Harry Covington D-MD
- John Kronmiller R-MD
- John Gill Jr. D-MD
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Amos Lawrence Allen R-ME
- Edwin Chick Burleigh R-ME
- Edwin Denby R-MI
- Washington Gardner R-MI
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI
- Samuel William Smith R-MI
- Henry Gordon Mcmorran R-MI
- George Alvin Loud R-MI
- James Albertus Tawney R-MN
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- David Albaugh De Armond D-MO
- Richard Bartholdt R-MO
- Patrick Francis Gill D-MO
- Harry Marcy Coudrey R-MO
- Charles Augustus Crow R-MO
- Arthur Phillips Murphy R-MO
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- Adam Monroe Byrd D-MS
- Eaton Jackson Bowers D-MS
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- John Motley Morehead R-NC
- Asle Jorgenson Gronna R-ND
- Henry Clay Loudenslager R-NJ
- Ira Wells Wood R-NJ
- Charles Newell Fowler R-NJ
- Eugene Francis Kinkead D-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- George Arthur Bartlett D-NV
- George Henry Lindsay D-NY
- Otto Godfrey Foelker R-NY
- Richard Young R-NY
- William Musgrave Calder R-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Henry Mayer Goldfogle D-NY
- William Sulzer D-NY
- Charles Vincent Fornes D-NY
- Michael Francis Conry D-NY
- William Forte Willett Jr. D-NY
- Joseph Aloysius Goulden D-NY
- Thomas Wilson Bradley R-NY
- George Newell Southwick R-NY
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY
- Cyrus Durey R-NY
- Charles Stephen Millington R-NY
- Charles Luman Knapp R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- James Breck Perkins R-NY
- James Samuel Simmons R-NY
- Timothy Thomas Ansberry D-OH
- Albert Douglas R-OH
- William Graves Sharp D-OH
- James Joyce R-OH
- James Kennedy R-OH
- Joel Cook R-PA
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- Reuben Osborne Moon R-PA
- William Walker Foulkrod R-PA
- George Deardorff Mccreary R-PA
- Irving Price Wanger R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- William Bauchop Wilson D-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Marlin Edgar Olmsted R-PA
- John Merriman Reynolds R-PA
- Daniel Franklin Lafean R-PA
- Charles Frederick Barclay R-PA
- George Franklin Huff R-PA
- John Kinley Tener R-PA
- Arthur Laban Bates R-PA
- Alexander Mitchell Palmer D-PA
- William Harrison Graham R-PA
- William Paine Sheffield R-RI
- Adin Ballou Capron R-RI
- James O'Hanlon Patterson D-SC
- Walter Preston Brownlow R-TN
- Gordon James Russell D-TX
- Robert Maclin Lively D-TX
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- John Matthew Moore D-TX
- George Farmer Burgess D-TX
- Oscar William Gillespie D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- Francis Rives Lassiter D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- David Johnson Foster R-VT
- Francis Wellington Cushman R-WA
- William Wallace Mccredie R-WA
- Miles Poindexter R-WA
- Arthur William Kopp R-WI
- William Joseph Cary R-WI
- Charles Herman Weisse D-WI
- John Jacob Esch R-WI
- James Henry Davidson R-WI
- Irvine Luther Lenroot R-WI
- William Pallister Hubbard R-WV
- George Cookman Sturgiss R-WV
- Joseph Holt Gaines R-WV
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
- James Anthony Hughes R-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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