House roll call 69 · 61st Congress · Mar 17, 1910
On deciding whether it is in order for a representative to bring up as a constitutional privilege, H.J. RES. 172.
On Mar 17, 1910, the House voted 201–72 (HJR 172). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 131–29, Democrats 70–43. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 72 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
- 201
- No
- 72
- Did not vote
- 129
- Date
- Mar 17, 1910
By party
- Democrats70 yes · 43 no · 67 didn’t vote
- Republicans131 yes · 29 no · 62 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Benjamin Craig D-AL voted no
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL voted no
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA voted no
- John Andrew Martin D-CO voted no
- Edwin Werter Higgins R-CT voted no
- Seaborn Anderson Roddenbery D-GA voted no
- Leonidas Felix Livingston D-GA voted no
- Charles Lafayette Bartlett D-GA voted no
- Thomas William Hardwick D-GA voted no
- Albert Foster Dawson R-IA voted no
- Charles Edgar Pickett R-IA voted no
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA voted no
- James William Good R-IA voted no
- Nathan Edward Kendall R-IA voted no
- William Warfield Wilson R-IL voted no
- Martin David Foster D-IL voted no
- Ralph Wilbur Moss D-IN voted no
- Cyrus Cline D-IN voted no
- Edmond Haggard Madison R-KS voted no
- Victor Murdock R-KS voted no
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY voted no
- Harvey Helm D-KY voted no
- John Gill Jr. D-MD voted no
- Charles Elroy Townsend R-MI voted no
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI voted no
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN voted no
- Frederick Clement Stevens R-MN voted no
- Charles August Lindbergh R-MN voted no
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO voted no
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS voted no
- Thomas Spight D-MS voted no
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS voted no
- Adam Monroe Byrd D-MS voted no
- William Alexander Dickson D-MS voted no
- James William Collier D-MS voted no
- John Humphrey Small D-NC voted no
- Claude Kitchin D-NC voted no
- Asle Jorgenson Gronna 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 Newell Fowler R-NJ voted no
- William Hughes D-NJ voted no
- Hamilton Fish R-NY voted no
- David Adams Hollingsworth R-OH voted no
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA voted no
- John Hoover Rothermel D-PA voted no
- William Bauchop Wilson D-PA voted no
- Wyatt Aiken D-SC voted no
- Joseph Travis Johnson D-SC voted no
- Eben Wever Martin R-SD voted no
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN voted no
- Morris Sheppard D-TX voted no
- Martin Dies D-TX voted no
- James Andrew (Jack) Beall D-TX voted no
- Rufus Hardy D-TX voted no
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX voted no
- John Matthew Moore D-TX voted no
- Albert Sidney Burleson D-TX voted no
- Oscar William Gillespie D-TX voted no
- John Nance Garner D-TX voted no
- William Robert Smith D-TX voted no
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA voted no
- Harry Lee Maynard D-VA voted no
- Robert Turnbull D-VA voted no
- James Hay D-VA voted no
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA voted no
- Miles Poindexter R-WA voted no
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI voted no
- Arthur William Kopp R-WI voted no
- William Henry Stafford R-WI voted no
- Elmer Addison Morse R-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Henry De Lamar Clayton D-AL
- William Richardson D-AL
- Oscar Wilder Underwood D-AL
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR
- John Charles Floyd D-AR
- William Fellows Englebright R-CA
- Joseph Russell Knowland R-CA
- James Carson Needham R-CA
- James Mclachlan R-CA
- Atterson Walden Rucker D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Edward Stevens Henry R-CT
- Nehemiah Day Sperry R-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- William Henry Heald R-DE
- Stephen Milancthon Sparkman D-FL
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA
- Dudley Mays Hughes D-GA
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- William Gordon Brantley D-GA
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- John Albert Tiffin Hull R-IA
- Walter Inglewood Smith R-IA
- Frank Plowman Woods R-IA
- Elbert Hamilton Hubbard R-IA
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- James Thomas Mcdermott D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- George Edmund Foss R-IL
- Frank Orren Lowden R-IL
- James Mckinney R-IL
- George Washington Prince R-IL
- Joseph Verdi Graff R-IL
- John Allen Sterling R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- William August Rodenberg R-IL
- Napoleon Bonaparte Thistlewood R-IL
- William Allen Cullop D-IN
- William Elijah Cox D-IN
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN
- William Oscar Barnard R-IN
- John Alfred Adair D-IN
- Martin Andrew Morrison D-IN
- Edgar Dean Crumpacker R-IN
- George Washington Rauch D-IN
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- Charles Frederick Scott R-KS
- James Monroe Miller R-KS
- William Alexander Calderhead R-KS
- William Augustus Reeder R-KS
- Ollie Murray James D-KY
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- Joseph Bentley Bennett R-KY
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- Don Calvin Edwards R-KY
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- Samuel Louis Gilmore D-LA
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA
- Joseph Eugene Ransdell D-LA
- Robert Charles Wickliffe D-LA
- Arsène Paulin Pujo D-LA
- George Pelton Lawrence R-MA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- Charles Grenfill Washburn R-MA
- Charles Quincy Tirrell R-MA
- Butler Ames R-MA
- Ernest William Roberts R-MA
- John Austin Keliher D-MA
- Andrew James Peters D-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- James Harry Covington D-MD
- John Kronmiller R-MD
- George Alexander Pearre R-MD
- Amos Lawrence Allen R-ME
- Edwin Chick Burleigh R-ME
- Frank Edward Guernsey R-ME
- Washington Gardner R-MI
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI
- Samuel William Smith R-MI
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- Francis Henry Dodds R-MI
- Horace Olin Young R-MI
- James Albertus Tawney R-MN
- Winfield Scott Hammond D-MN
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- James Tilghman Lloyd D-MO
- William Patterson Borland D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- Richard Bartholdt R-MO
- Patrick Francis Gill D-MO
- Harry Marcy Coudrey R-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan R-MO
- Arthur Phillips Murphy R-MO
- Charles Randolph Thomas D-NC
- Charles Holden Cowles R-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- John Gaston Grant R-NC
- Louis Benjamin Hanna R-ND
- John Arthur Maguire D-NE
- Gilbert Monell Hitchcock D-NE
- James Polk Latta D-NE
- Cyrus Adams Sulloway R-NH
- Frank Dunklee Currier R-NH
- Henry Clay Loudenslager R-NJ
- John James Gardner R-NJ
- Benjamin Franklin Howell R-NJ
- Ira Wells Wood R-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- William Halsted Wiley R-NJ
- Eugene Francis Kinkead D-NJ
- William Willets Cocks R-NY
- George Henry Lindsay D-NY
- Otto Godfrey Foelker R-NY
- Charles Blakeslee Law R-NY
- Richard Young R-NY
- William Musgrave Calder R-NY
- Francis Burton Harrison D-NY
- William Stiles Bennet R-NY
- Joseph Aloysius Goulden D-NY
- John Emory Andrus R-NY
- Thomas Wilson Bradley R-NY
- William Henry Draper R-NY
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY
- Cyrus Durey R-NY
- George Roland Malby R-NY
- John Wilbur Dwight R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Jacob Sloat Fassett R-NY
- De Alva Stanwood Alexander R-NY
- Edward Butterfield Vreeland R-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Herman Philip Goebel R-OH
- James Middleton Cox D-OH
- William Ellsworth Tou Velle D-OH
- Matthew Rombach Denver D-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- Ralph Dayton Cole R-OH
- Adna Romulus Johnson R-OH
- Albert Douglas R-OH
- William Graves Sharp D-OH
- James Joyce R-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- James Kennedy R-OH
- William Aubrey Thomas R-OH
- Leonard Paul Howland R-OH
- Bird Segle Mcguire R-OK
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- Charles Edward Creager R-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- William Russell Ellis R-OR
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- Irving Price Wanger R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- Henry Wilbur Palmer R-PA
- John Geiser Mchenry D-PA
- Marlin Edgar Olmsted R-PA
- John Merriman Reynolds R-PA
- Daniel Franklin Lafean R-PA
- George Franklin Huff R-PA
- Allen Foster Cooper R-PA
- Arthur Laban Bates R-PA
- Alexander Mitchell Palmer D-PA
- Jonathan Nicholas Langham R-PA
- Nelson Platt Wheeler R-PA
- William Harrison Graham R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- James Edwin Ellerbe D-SC
- Charles Henry Burke R-SD
- Walter Preston Brownlow R-TN
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- William Cannon Houston D-TN
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- George Washington Gordon D-TN
- John Hall Stephens D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- Joseph Howell R-UT
- John Lamb D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- David Johnson Foster R-VT
- Frank Plumley R-VT
- William Ewart Humphrey R-WA
- William Wallace Mccredie R-WA
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- James Henry Davidson R-WI
- Gustav Küstermann R-WI
- Irvine Luther Lenroot R-WI
- Joseph Holt Gaines R-WV
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- William Benjamin Craig D-AL
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Edwin Werter Higgins R-CT
- Seaborn Anderson Roddenbery D-GA
- Leonidas Felix Livingston D-GA
- Charles Lafayette Bartlett D-GA
- Thomas William Hardwick D-GA
- Albert Foster Dawson R-IA
- Charles Edgar Pickett R-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- James William Good R-IA
- Nathan Edward Kendall R-IA
- William Warfield Wilson R-IL
- Martin David Foster D-IL
- Ralph Wilbur Moss D-IN
- Cyrus Cline D-IN
- Edmond Haggard Madison R-KS
- Victor Murdock R-KS
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY
- Harvey Helm D-KY
- John Gill Jr. D-MD
- Charles Elroy Townsend R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Frederick Clement Stevens R-MN
- Charles August Lindbergh R-MN
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS
- Thomas Spight D-MS
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- Adam Monroe Byrd D-MS
- William Alexander Dickson D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- Asle Jorgenson Gronna R-ND
- Edmund Howard Hinshaw R-NE
- George William Norris R-NE
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE
- Charles Newell Fowler R-NJ
- William Hughes D-NJ
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- David Adams Hollingsworth R-OH
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- John Hoover Rothermel D-PA
- William Bauchop Wilson D-PA
- Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- Joseph Travis Johnson D-SC
- Eben Wever Martin R-SD
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN
- Morris Sheppard D-TX
- Martin Dies D-TX
- James Andrew (Jack) Beall D-TX
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- John Matthew Moore D-TX
- Albert Sidney Burleson D-TX
- Oscar William Gillespie D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- William Robert Smith D-TX
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- Harry Lee Maynard D-VA
- Robert Turnbull D-VA
- James Hay D-VA
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA
- Miles Poindexter R-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- Arthur William Kopp R-WI
- William Henry Stafford R-WI
- Elmer Addison Morse R-WI
Did not vote
- George Washington Taylor D-AL
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- Richmond Pearson Hobson D-AL
- Robert Bruce Macon D-AR
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- Charles Chester Reid D-AR
- Joseph Taylor Robinson D-AR
- Robert Minor Wallace D-AR
- Duncan E. Mckinlay R-CA
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- Sylvester Clark Smith R-CA
- Ebenezer J. Hill R-CT
- Frank Clark D-FL
- Dannite Hill Mays D-FL
- James Mathews Griggs D-GA
- William Marcellus Howard D-GA
- William Darius Jamieson D-IA
- Thomas Ray Hamer R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- William James Moxley R-IL
- William Lorimer R-IL
- Frederick Lundin R-IL
- Henry Sherman Boutell R-IL
- Howard Malcolm Snapp R-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- William Brown Mckinley R-IL
- James McMahon Graham D-IL
- Pleasant Thomas Chapman R-IL
- John William Boehne D-IN
- Charles Alexander Korbly D-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- Augustus Owsley Stanley D-KY
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY
- Joseph Lafayette Rhinock D-KY
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- Robert Foligny Broussard D-LA
- John Joseph Mitchell D-MA
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA
- Samuel Walker Mccall R-MA
- Joseph Francis O'Connell D-MA
- John Wingate Weeks R-MA
- Eugene Noble Foss D-MA
- William Croad Lovering R-MA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- John Philip Swasey R-ME
- Edwin Denby R-MI
- Gerrit John Diekema R-MI
- Henry Gordon Mcmorran R-MI
- George Alvin Loud R-MI
- Frank Mellen Nye R-MN
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- David Albaugh De Armond D-MO
- Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO
- Politte Elvins R-MO
- Charles Augustus Crow R-MO
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- Eaton Jackson Bowers D-MS
- Charles Nelson Pray R-MT
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- John Motley Morehead R-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- Robert Newton Page D-NC
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- George Arthur Bartlett D-NV
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-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
- Herbert Parsons R-NY
- William Forte Willett Jr. D-NY
- Jacob Van Vechten Olcott R-NY
- George Newell Southwick R-NY
- Charles Stephen Millington R-NY
- Charles Luman Knapp R-NY
- Michael Edward Driscoll R-NY
- James Breck Perkins R-NY
- James Smith Havens D-NY
- James Samuel Simmons R-NY
- Daniel Angelus Driscoll D-NY
- Timothy Thomas Ansberry D-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Edward Livingston Taylor Jr. R-OH
- Carl Carey Anderson D-OH
- James Henry Cassidy R-OH
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Joel Cook R-PA
- Reuben Osborne Moon R-PA
- William Walker Foulkrod R-PA
- George Deardorff Mccreary R-PA
- Thomas David Nicholls D-PA
- Alfred Buckwalter Garner R-PA
- Charles Clarence Pratt R-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Charles Frederick Barclay R-PA
- John Kinley Tener R-PA
- James Francis Burke R-PA
- Andrew Jackson Barchfeld R-PA
- William Paine Sheffield R-RI
- Adin Ballou Capron R-RI
- George Swinton Legaré D-SC
- James O'Hanlon Patterson D-SC
- David Edward Finley D-SC
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- Zachary David Massey R-TN
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Gordon James Russell D-TX
- Robert Maclin Lively D-TX
- Choice Boswell Randell D-TX
- George Farmer Burgess D-TX
- Robert Lee Henry D-TX
- Francis Rives Lassiter D-VA
- Carter Glass D-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- Francis Wellington Cushman R-WA
- William Joseph Cary R-WI
- Charles Herman Weisse D-WI
- John Jacob Esch R-WI
- William Pallister Hubbard R-WV
- George Cookman Sturgiss R-WV
- James Anthony Hughes R-WV
Other votes
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