To resolve the house into the committee of the whole house in order to take up for consideration the bill on the private calendar S. 2045 (36 stat 1344, 3/3/191

On Feb 17, 1911, the House voted 181–59 (S 2045). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 122–2, Republicans 59–57. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 59 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: 181
No: 59
Did not vote: 162
Date: Feb 17, 1911

By party

Democrats122 yes · 2 no · 56 didn’t vote
Republicans59 yes · 57 no · 106 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Edward Stevens Henry R-CT voted no
John Quillin Tilson R-CT voted no
Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA voted no
Nathan Edward Kendall R-IA voted no
Walter Inglewood Smith 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
James Robert Mann R-IL voted no
William James Moxley R-IL voted no
Frederick Lundin R-IL voted no
George Edmund Foss R-IL voted no
Howard Malcolm Snapp R-IL voted no
Frank Orren Lowden R-IL voted no
Joseph Verdi Graff R-IL voted no
John Allen Sterling R-IL voted no
William Brown Mckinley R-IL voted no
William August Rodenberg R-IL voted no
William Oscar Barnard R-IN voted no
Martin Andrew Morrison D-IN voted no
Cyrus Cline D-IN voted no
Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS voted no
Charles Frederick Scott R-KS voted no
Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS voted no
James Monroe Miller R-KS voted no
Ernest William Roberts R-MA voted no
Frederick Clement Stevens R-MN voted no
Charles August Lindbergh R-MN voted no
Andrew John Volstead R-MN voted no
Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN voted no
Halvor Steenerson R-MN voted no
Edmund Howard Hinshaw R-NE voted no
George William Norris R-NE voted no
Benjamin Franklin Howell R-NJ voted no
William Halsted Wiley R-NJ voted no
Hamilton Fish R-NY voted no
William Henry Draper R-NY voted no
John Wilbur Dwight R-NY voted no
Jacob Sloat Fassett R-NY voted no
Herman Philip Goebel R-OH voted no
William Aubrey Thomas R-OH voted no
Leonard Paul Howland R-OH voted no
Bird Segle Mcguire R-OK voted no
Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA voted no
Henry Wilbur Palmer R-PA voted no
Alfred Buckwalter Garner R-PA voted no
Charles Clarence Pratt R-PA voted no
Marlin Edgar Olmsted R-PA voted no
Allen Foster Cooper R-PA voted no
John Dalzell R-PA voted no
Andrew Jackson Barchfeld R-PA voted no
Charles Henry Burke R-SD voted no
Eben Wever Martin R-SD voted no
Joseph Howell R-UT voted no
William Ewart Humphrey R-WA voted no
John Mandt Nelson R-WI voted no
William Henry Stafford R-WI voted no
John Jacob Esch R-WI voted no
Gustav Küstermann 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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Capitol Receipts, “To resolve the house into the committee of…: House Vote, Feb 17, 1911,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/61-H-172/to-resolve-the-house-into-the-committee-of-the (accessed 2026-10-17).