House roll call 280 · 63rd Congress · Mar 3, 1915
To suspend the rules and pass the bill S. 4522 (38 stat. 1196, 3/4/1915), amending an act regulating commerce, approved feb. 4, 1887, and all acts amendatory TH
On Mar 3, 1915, the House voted 250–66 (S 4522). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 198–13, Republicans 44–52, Others 8–0, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 57 members voted against their own party.
During the 63rd Congress (1913–1914), Woodrow Wilson was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 250
- No
- 66
- Did not vote
- 137
- Date
- Mar 3, 1915
By party
- Democrats198 yes · 13 no · 93 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
- Republicans44 yes · 52 no · 43 didn’t vote
- Others8 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Oscar Wilder Underwood D-AL voted no
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA voted yes
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA voted yes
- Charles Webster Bell R-CA voted yes
- William Dennison Stephens R-CA voted yes
- Horace Mann Towner R-IA voted yes
- William Raymond Green R-IA voted yes
- Frank Plowman Woods R-IA voted yes
- George Cromwell Scott R-IA voted yes
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID voted yes
- Burton Lee French R-ID voted yes
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL voted yes
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL voted no
- William Nicolas Baltz D-IL voted no
- Martin David Foster D-IL voted no
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS voted yes
- Victor Murdock R-KS voted yes
- Caleb Powers R-KY voted yes
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI voted yes
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI voted yes
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI voted yes
- Sydney Anderson R-MN voted yes
- Charles August Lindbergh R-MN voted yes
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN voted yes
- James Manahan R-MN voted yes
- Joseph James Russell D-MO voted no
- Henry Thomas Helgesen R-ND voted yes
- Patrick Daniel Norton R-ND voted yes
- Charles Henry Sloan R-NE voted yes
- Silas Reynolds Barton R-NE voted yes
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE voted yes
- Jefferson Monroe Levy D-NY voted no
- Joseph Aloysius Goulden D-NY voted no
- John Richard Clancy D-NY voted no
- Edwin Stewart Underhill D-NY voted no
- James Douglass Post D-OH voted no
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH voted yes
- Elsworth Raymond Bathrick D-OH voted no
- William Gordon D-OH voted no
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK voted yes
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR voted yes
- Abraham Walter Lafferty R-OR voted yes
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA voted yes
- Arthur Ringwalt Rupley R-PA voted yes
- Charles Hall Dillon R-SD voted yes
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN voted yes
- Joseph Howell R-UT voted yes
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA voted no
- William Leroy La Follette R-WA voted yes
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI voted yes
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI voted yes
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI voted yes
- James Archibald Frear R-WI voted yes
- Irvine Luther Lenroot R-WI voted yes
- James Anthony Hughes R-WV voted yes
- Howard Sutherland R-WV voted yes
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- Richmond Pearson Hobson D-AL
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL
- John William Abercrombie D-AL
- Thaddeus Horatius Caraway D-AR
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR
- John Charles Floyd D-AR
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- Henderson Madison Jacoway D-AR
- Samuel Mitchell Taylor D-AR
- William Shields Goodwin D-AR
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA
- Denver Samuel Church D-CA
- Charles Webster Bell R-CA
- William Dennison Stephens R-CA
- William Kettner D-CA
- Harry Hunter Seldomridge D-CO
- Edward Keating D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Bryan Francis Mahan D-CT
- Thomas Lawrence Reilly D-CT
- William Kennedy D-CT
- Franklin Brockson D-DE
- Stephen Milancthon Sparkman D-FL
- Frank Clark D-FL
- Emmett Wilson D-FL
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA
- Frank Park D-GA
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- Charles Lafayette Bartlett D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Dudley Mays Hughes D-GA
- Maurice Connolly D-IA
- Sanford Kirkpatrick D-IA
- Horace Mann Towner R-IA
- William Raymond Green R-IA
- Frank Plowman Woods R-IA
- George Cromwell Scott R-IA
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- George Edmund Gorman D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Frank Buchanan D-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- Charles Marsh Thomson O-IL
- William Henry Hinebaugh O-IL
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL
- Clyde Howard Tavenner D-IL
- Claudius Ulysses Stone D-IL
- Louis Fitzhenry D-IL
- Frank Trimble O'Hair D-IL
- Hiram Robert Fowler D-IL
- Robert Potter Hill D-IL
- William Elza Williams D-IL
- Charles Lieb D-IN
- William Allen Cullop D-IN
- William Elijah Cox D-IN
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN
- Ralph Wilbur Moss D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray 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
- Joseph Taggart D-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS
- Guy Tresillian Helvering D-KS
- John Robert Connelly D-KS
- George Arthur Neeley D-KS
- Victor Murdock R-KS
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- Harvey Helm D-KY
- William Jason Fields D-KY
- Caleb Powers R-KY
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA
- John Joseph Mitchell D-MA
- Edward Gilmore D-MA
- Thomas Chandler Thacher D-MA
- Jesse Dashiell Price D-MD
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Frank Owens Smith D-MD
- Daniel John Mcgillicuddy D-ME
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI
- Samuel Willard Beakes D-MI
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff O-MI
- William Josiah Macdonald O-MI
- Sydney Anderson R-MN
- Charles August Lindbergh R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- James Manahan R-MN
- James Tilghman Lloyd D-MO
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- William Patterson Borland D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO
- Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO
- William Leo Igoe D-MO
- Michael Joseph Gill D-MO
- Perl D. Decker D-MO
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- Samuel Andrew Witherspoon D-MS
- Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- Tom Stout D-MT
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- Robert Newton Page D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- James Madison Gudger Jr. D-NC
- Henry Thomas Helgesen R-ND
- Patrick Daniel Norton R-ND
- John Arthur Maguire D-NE
- Charles Otto Lobeck D-NE
- Dan Voorhees Stephens D-NE
- Charles Henry Sloan R-NE
- Silas Reynolds Barton R-NE
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE
- Raymond Bartlett Stevens D-NH
- Jacob Thompson Baker D-NJ
- Allan Bartholomew Walsh D-NJ
- Archibald Chapman Hart D-NJ
- Edward Waterman Townsend D-NJ
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ
- Harvey Butler Fergusson D-NM
- Lathrop Brown D-NY
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Griffin D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Michael Francis Conry D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Walter Marion Chandler O-NY
- Henry Bruckner D-NY
- Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck D-NY
- Charles Andrew Talcott D-NY
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY
- Daniel Angelus Driscoll D-NY
- Warren Gard D-OH
- John Henry Goeke D-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH
- George White D-OH
- William Bates Francis D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- John Jefferson Whitacre D-OH
- Robert Johns Bulkley D-OH
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK
- William Henry David Murray D-OK
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- Abraham Walter Lafferty R-OR
- Michael Donohoe D-PA
- James Washington Logue D-PA
- Robert Edward Difenderfer D-PA
- Robert Emmett Lee D-PA
- John Hoover Rothermel D-PA
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA
- Franklin Lewis Dershem D-PA
- Warren Worth Bailey D-PA
- Andrew R. Brodbeck D-PA
- Wooda Nicholas Carr D-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple O-PA
- Alexander Mitchell Palmer D-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA
- Arthur Ringwalt Rupley R-PA
- James Francis Byrnes D-SC
- Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- Joseph Travis Johnson D-SC
- David Edward Finley D-SC
- James Willard Ragsdale D-SC
- Charles Hall Dillon R-SD
- 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
- Kenneth Douglas Mckellar D-TN
- Horace Worth Vaughan D-TX
- Martin Dies D-TX
- James Young D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- James Andrew (Jack) Beall D-TX
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- George Farmer Burgess D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Robert Lee Henry D-TX
- Oscar Callaway D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- William Robert Smith D-TX
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Joseph Howell R-UT
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA
- Carter Glass D-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- William Leroy La Follette R-WA
- Jacob Alexander Falconer O-WA
- James Wesley Bryan O-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- Michael Edmund Burke D-WI
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- Thomas Frank Konop D-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- Irvine Luther Lenroot R-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- William Gay Brown Jr. D-WV
- James Anthony Hughes R-WV
- Howard Sutherland R-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Oscar Wilder Underwood D-AL
- William Kent I-CA
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- Joseph Russell Knowland R-CA
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- William Nicolas Baltz D-IL
- Martin David Foster D-IL
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA
- John Jacob Rogers R-MA
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA
- Ernest William Roberts R-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- Asher Crosby Hinds R-ME
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Frank Edward Guernsey R-ME
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Frederick Clement Stevens R-MN
- George Ross Smith R-MN
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN
- Joseph James Russell D-MO
- William John Browning R-NJ
- Dow Henry Drukker R-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- William Musgrave Calder R-NY
- Jefferson Monroe Levy D-NY
- Joseph Aloysius Goulden D-NY
- Edmund Platt R-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- Samuel Wallin R-NY
- John Richard Clancy D-NY
- Edwin Stewart Underhill D-NY
- Henry Gold Danforth R-NY
- Charles Mann Hamilton R-NY
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- James Douglass Post D-OH
- Elsworth Raymond Bathrick D-OH
- William Gordon D-OH
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA
- Fred Ewing Lewis R-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- Ambrose Kennedy R-RI
- Eben Wever Martin R-SD
- Sam Riley Sells R-TN
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- Frank Lester Greene R-VT
- Frank Plumley R-VT
- William Ewart Humphrey R-WA
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- William Henry Stafford R-WI
- John Jacob Esch R-WI
Did not vote
- George Washington Taylor D-AL
- Henry De Lamar Clayton D-AL
- William Oscar Mulkey D-AL
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL
- Christopher Columbus Harris D-AL
- William Richardson D-AL
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- George John Kindel D-CO
- Augustine Lonergan D-CT
- Jeremiah Donovan D-CT
- Claude L'Engle D-FL
- Seaborn Anderson Roddenbery D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- William Schley Howard D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Samuel Joelah Tribble D-GA
- Thomas William Hardwick D-GA
- John Randall Walker D-GA
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- Henry Vollmer D-IA
- Irvin St. Clair Pepper D-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- James William Good R-IA
- Solomon Francis Prouty R-IA
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- James Thomas Mcdermott D-IL
- Ira Clifton Copley R-IL
- Stephen Arnold Hoxworth D-IL
- Charles Martin Borchers D-IL
- James McMahon Graham D-IL
- Lawrence Beaumont Stringer D-IL
- John Barney Peterson D-IN
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Augustus Owsley Stanley D-KY
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- Robert Foligny Broussard D-LA
- James Walter Elder D-LA
- Lewis Lovering Morgan D-LA
- William Henry Wilder R-MA
- Frederick Simpson Deitrick D-MA
- William Francis Murray D-MA
- Andrew James Peters D-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- James Harry Covington D-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- George Konig D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Forrest Goodwin R-ME
- John M. C. Smith R-MI
- Samuel William Smith R-MI
- Francis Oscar Lindquist R-MI
- Horace Olin Young R-MI
- Patrick Henry Kelley R-MI
- Winfield Scott Hammond D-MN
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- Richard Bartholdt R-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Walter Lewis Hensley D-MO
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- John Miller Faison D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- George Morley Young R-ND
- Eugene Elliott Reed D-NH
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ
- William Edgar Tuttle Jr. D-NJ
- Lewis J. Martin D-NJ
- Robert Gunn Bremner D-NJ
- Eugene Francis Kinkead D-NJ
- Walter Irving Mccoy D-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- Edwin Ewing Roberts R-NV
- Denis O'Leary D-NY
- Frank Eugene Wilson D-NY
- Harry Howard Dale D-NY
- James Paul Maher D-NY
- James Henry O'Brien D-NY
- Herman August Metz D-NY
- Henry Mayer Goldfogle D-NY
- George William Loft D-NY
- Timothy Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY
- Thomas Gedney Patten D-NY
- Francis Burton Harrison D-NY
- Jacob Aaron Cantor D-NY
- Henry George Jr. D-NY
- Woodson Ratcliffe Oglesby D-NY
- Benjamin Irving Taylor D-NY
- George Mcclellan D-NY
- Edwin Albert Merritt R-NY
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY
- Robert Henry Gittins D-NY
- Stanley Eyre Bowdle D-OH
- Alfred Gaither Allen D-OH
- Timothy Thomas Ansberry D-OH
- Frank Bartlett Willis R-OH
- Horatio Clifford Claypool D-OH
- John Alexander Key D-OH
- William Graves Sharp D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Bird Segle Mcguire R-OK
- James Sanford Davenport D-OK
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Claude Weaver D-OK
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- John Richard Farr R-PA
- John Joseph Casey D-PA
- William David Blakeslee Ainey R-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- Charles Emory Patton R-PA
- Abraham Lincoln Keister R-PA
- Milton William Shreve R-PA
- Jonathan Nicholas Langham R-PA
- Willis James Hulings O-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- James Francis Burke R-PA
- Andrew Jackson Barchfeld R-PA
- Anderson Howell Walters R-PA
- George Francis O'Shaunessy D-RI
- Peter Goelet Gerry D-RI
- Richard Smith Whaley D-SC
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- Charles Henry Burke R-SD
- John Hall Stephens D-TX
- Jacob Johnson R-UT
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- James Hay D-VA
- William Joseph Cary R-WI
- John William Davis D-WV
- Samuel Brashear Avis R-WV
- Hunter Holmes Moss Jr. R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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