Senate roll call 424 · 63rd Congress · Sep 11, 1914
To amend S. 6398, by adding a new section authorizing the texas, arkansas, oklahmoma, louisiana, mississippi, alabama, georgia, florida, south carolina, north c
On Sep 11, 1914, the Senate voted 10–38 (S 6398). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 11–22, Republicans 0–18. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 11 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
- 10
- No
- 38
- Did not vote
- 50
- Date
- Sep 11, 1914
By party
- Democrats11 yes · 22 no · 23 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 18 no · 26 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Francis Shelley (Frank) White D-AL voted yes
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL voted yes
- James Paul Clarke D-AR voted yes
- Joseph Taylor Robinson D-AR voted yes
- Hoke Smith D-GA voted yes
- John Randolph Thornton D-LA voted yes
- Joseph Eugene Ransdell D-LA voted yes
- James Kimble Vardaman D-MS voted yes
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC voted yes
- Lee Slater Overman D-NC voted yes
- Morris Sheppard D-TX voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
How each senator voted: No
- Henry Fountain Ashurst D-AZ
- George Clement Perkins R-CA
- Charles Spalding Thomas D-CO
- John Franklin Shafroth D-CO
- George Payne Mclean R-CT
- Willard Saulsbury Jr. D-DE
- Nathan Philemon Bryan D-FL
- William Stanley West D-GA
- William Squire Kenyon R-IA
- James Henry Brady R-ID
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- John Worth Kern D-IN
- Joseph Little Bristow R-KS
- Johnson Newlon Camden Jr. D-KY
- Blair Lee D-MD
- Charles Elroy Townsend R-MI
- William Alden Smith R-MI
- Moses Edwin Clapp R-MN
- James Alexander Reed D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- John Sharp Williams D-MS
- Henry Lee Myers D-MT
- Thomas James Walsh D-MT
- Porter James Mccumber R-ND
- George William Norris R-NE
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- James Edgar Martine D-NJ
- William Hughes D-NJ
- Elihu Root R-NY
- Atlee Pomerene D-OH
- Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH
- George Earle Chamberlain D-OR
- Harry Lane D-OR
- George Tener Oliver R-PA
- Thomas Sterling R-SD
- Luke Lea D-TN
- Reed Smoot R-UT
- Claude Augustus Swanson D-VA
- Carroll Smalley Page R-VT
- Wesley Livsey Jones R-WA
Did not vote
- Joseph Forney Johnston D-AL
- Marcus Aurelius Smith D-AZ
- John Downey Works R-CA
- Frank Bosworth Brandegee R-CT
- Henry Algernon Du Pont R-DE
- Duncan Upshaw Fletcher D-FL
- Augustus Octavius Bacon D-GA
- Thomas William Hardwick D-GA
- Albert Baird Cummins R-IA
- William Edgar Borah R-ID
- James Hamilton Lewis D-IL
- Lawrence Yates Sherman R-IL
- William Howard Thompson D-KS
- Ollie Murray James D-KY
- William O'Connell Bradley R-KY
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- John Wingate Weeks R-MA
- John Walter Smith D-MD
- William Purnell Jackson R-MD
- Charles Fletcher Johnson D-ME
- Edwin Chick Burleigh R-ME
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Asle Jorgenson Gronna R-ND
- Gilbert Monell Hitchcock D-NE
- Henry French Hollis D-NH
- Albert Bacon Fall R-NM
- Thomas Benton Catron R-NM
- Francis Griffith Newlands D-NV
- Key Pittman D-NV
- James Aloysius O'Gorman D-NY
- Robert Latham Owen D-OK
- Thomas Pryor Gore D-OK
- Boies Penrose R-PA
- Henry Frederick Lippitt R-RI
- LeBaron Bradford Colt R-RI
- Benjamin Ryan Tillman D-SC
- Ellison DuRant Smith D-SC
- Coe Isaac Crawford R-SD
- John Knight Shields D-TN
- Charles Allen Culberson D-TX
- George Sutherland R-UT
- Thomas Staples Martin D-VA
- William Paul Dillingham R-VT
- Miles Poindexter O-WA
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- William Edwin Chilton D-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
- Francis Emroy Warren R-WY
Other votes
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