To recede from its disagreement to the district of columbia appropriation bill for fiscal year ending june 1912, H.R. 31856 (36 stat 966, 3/2/1911), and concur

On Feb 27, 1911, the House voted 115–147 (HR 31856). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 102–43, Democrats 13–104. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 56 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: 115
No: 147
Did not vote: 140
Date: Feb 27, 1911

By party

Democrats13 yes · 104 no · 63 didn’t vote
Republicans102 yes · 43 no · 77 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Edwin Werter Higgins R-CT voted no
Leonidas Felix Livingston D-GA voted yes
William Gordon Brantley D-GA voted yes
Charles Augustus Kennedy 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
William Warfield Wilson R-IL voted no
Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL voted no
Pleasant Thomas Chapman R-IL voted no
Napoleon Bonaparte Thistlewood R-IL voted no
William Oscar Barnard R-IN voted no
Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS voted no
Edmond Haggard Madison R-KS voted no
Augustus Owsley Stanley D-KY voted yes
Henry Garland Dupré D-LA voted yes
Ernest William Roberts R-MA voted no
John Austin Keliher D-MA voted yes
John Kronmiller R-MD voted no
Horace Olin Young R-MI voted no
Charles Russell Davis R-MN voted no
Charles August Lindbergh R-MN voted no
Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN voted no
Halvor Steenerson R-MN voted no
Arthur Phillips Murphy R-MO voted no
Charles Holden Cowles R-NC voted no
Louis Benjamin Hanna R-ND voted no
Edmund Howard Hinshaw R-NE voted no
George William Norris R-NE voted no
Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE voted no
Charles Vincent Fornes D-NY voted yes
William Stiles Bennet R-NY voted no
Joseph Aloysius Goulden D-NY voted yes
Hamilton Fish R-NY voted no
Michael Edward Driscoll R-NY voted no
David Adams Hollingsworth R-OH voted no
Leonard Paul Howland R-OH voted no
George Deardorff Mccreary R-PA voted no
Eben Wever Martin R-SD voted no
Albert Sidney Burleson D-TX voted yes
Oscar William Gillespie D-TX voted yes
John Lamb D-VA voted yes
James Hay D-VA voted yes
Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA voted yes
Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA voted yes
William Ewart Humphrey R-WA voted no
Miles Poindexter R-WA voted no
Henry Allen Cooper R-WI voted no
John Mandt Nelson R-WI voted no
Arthur William Kopp R-WI voted no
William Joseph Cary R-WI voted no
John Jacob Esch R-WI voted no
Elmer Addison Morse R-WI voted no
Irvine Luther Lenroot R-WI voted no
William Pallister Hubbard 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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