Senate roll call 83 · 62nd Congress · Aug 14, 1911
To amend an amendment to S. 854, by instructing the commission to draft and report for consideration of Congress such amendments to the national banking act as
On Aug 14, 1911, the Senate voted 25–36 (S 854). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 2–32, Democrats 23–5. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 7 members voted against their own party.
During the 62nd Congress (1911–1912), William Howard Taft was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 25
- No
- 36
- Did not vote
- 47
- Date
- Aug 14, 1911
By party
- Democrats23 yes · 5 no · 25 didn’t vote
- Republicans2 yes · 32 no · 22 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL voted no
- Joseph Forney Johnston D-AL voted no
- John Randolph Thornton D-LA voted no
- Moses Edwin Clapp R-MN voted yes
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC voted no
- James Aloysius O'Gorman D-NY voted no
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Paul Clarke D-AR
- Duncan Upshaw Fletcher D-FL
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- John Worth Kern D-IN
- Murphy James Foster D-LA
- Charles Fletcher Johnson D-ME
- Moses Edwin Clapp R-MN
- James Alexander Reed D-MO
- John Sharp Williams D-MS
- Henry Lee Myers D-MT
- Lee Slater Overman D-NC
- James Edgar Martine D-NJ
- Francis Griffith Newlands D-NV
- Atlee Pomerene D-OH
- Robert Latham Owen D-OK
- George Earle Chamberlain D-OR
- Ellison DuRant Smith D-SC
- Luke Lea D-TN
- Robert Love Taylor D-TN
- Charles Allen Culberson D-TX
- Claude Augustus Swanson D-VA
- Thomas Staples Martin D-VA
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Clarence Wayland Watson D-WV
- William Edwin Chilton D-WV
How each senator voted: No
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- Joseph Forney Johnston D-AL
- George Clement Perkins R-CA
- John Downey Works R-CA
- Frank Bosworth Brandegee R-CT
- Albert Baird Cummins R-IA
- Weldon Brinton Heyburn R-ID
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- Charles Curtis R-KS
- Joseph Little Bristow R-KS
- William O'Connell Bradley R-KY
- John Randolph Thornton D-LA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- Charles Elroy Townsend R-MI
- William Alden Smith R-MI
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Joseph Moore Dixon R-MT
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC
- Norris Brown R-NE
- Henry Eben Burnham R-NH
- Frank Obadiah Briggs R-NJ
- George Stuart Nixon R-NV
- Elihu Root R-NY
- James Aloysius O'Gorman D-NY
- Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH
- Jonathan Bourne Jr. R-OR
- George Tener Oliver R-PA
- George Peabody Wetmore R-RI
- Henry Frederick Lippitt R-RI
- Robert Jackson Gamble R-SD
- Reed Smoot R-UT
- Carroll Smalley Page R-VT
- William Paul Dillingham R-VT
- Miles Poindexter R-WA
- Wesley Livsey Jones R-WA
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Francis Emroy Warren R-WY
Did not vote
- Jeff Davis D-AR
- John Netherland Heiskell D-AR
- William Marmaduke Kavanaugh D-AR
- Henry Fountain Ashurst D-AZ
- Marcus Aurelius Smith D-AZ
- Charles Spalding Thomas D-CO
- Simon Guggenheim R-CO
- George Payne Mclean R-CT
- Harry Alden Richardson R-DE
- Henry Algernon Du Pont R-DE
- Nathan Philemon Bryan D-FL
- Augustus Octavius Bacon D-GA
- Hoke Smith D-GA
- Joseph Meriwether Terrell D-GA
- William Squire Kenyon R-IA
- James Henry Brady R-ID
- Kirtland Irving Perky D-ID
- William Edgar Borah R-ID
- William Lorimer R-IL
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY
- Winthrop Murray Crane R-MA
- Isidor Rayner D-MD
- John Walter Smith D-MD
- William Purnell Jackson R-MD
- Obadiah Gardner D-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- Le Roy Percy D-MS
- Asle Jorgenson Gronna R-ND
- Porter James Mccumber R-ND
- Gilbert Monell Hitchcock D-NE
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- Albert Bacon Fall R-NM
- Thomas Benton Catron R-NM
- Key Pittman D-NV
- William Alexander Massey R-NV
- Thomas Pryor Gore D-OK
- Boies Penrose R-PA
- Benjamin Ryan Tillman D-SC
- Coe Isaac Crawford R-SD
- Newell Sanders R-TN
- William Robert Webb D-TN
- Joseph Weldon Bailey D-TX
- Morris Sheppard D-TX
- Rienzi Melville Johnston D-TX
- George Sutherland R-UT
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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