House roll call 10 · 64th Congress · Feb 2, 1916
To pass H. R. 8234 (39 stat. 675, sept. 1, 1916), a bill to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor and for other purposes. (p. 2035-1)
On Feb 2, 1916, the House voted 337–46 (HR 8234). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 158–48, Republicans 176–2, Others 8–0, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 50 members voted against their own party.
During the 64th Congress (1915–1916), Woodrow Wilson was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 337
- No
- 46
- Did not vote
- 48
- Date
- Feb 2, 1916
By party
- Democrats158 yes · 48 no · 26 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
- Republicans176 yes · 2 no · 22 didn’t vote
- Others8 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL voted no
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL voted no
- Frank Clark D-FL voted no
- Emmett Wilson D-FL voted no
- William Joseph Sears D-FL voted no
- Frank Park D-GA voted no
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA voted no
- William Charles Adamson D-GA voted no
- James Walter Wise D-GA voted no
- Gordon Lee D-GA voted no
- Samuel Joelah Tribble D-GA voted no
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA voted no
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted no
- John Randall Walker D-GA voted no
- Dudley Mays Hughes D-GA voted no
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS voted no
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS voted no
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS voted no
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS voted no
- William Webb Venable D-MS voted no
- Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison D-MS voted no
- John Humphrey Small D-NC voted no
- Claude Kitchin D-NC voted no
- George Ezekial Hood D-NC voted no
- Edward William Pou D-NC voted no
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC voted no
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC voted no
- Robert Newton Page D-NC voted no
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted no
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC voted no
- James Jefferson Britt R-NC voted no
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ voted no
- Richard Smith Whaley D-SC voted no
- James Francis Byrnes D-SC voted no
- Wyatt Aiken D-SC voted no
- Samuel Jones Nicholls D-SC voted no
- David Edward Finley D-SC voted no
- James Willard Ragsdale D-SC voted no
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC voted no
- William Cannon Houston D-TN voted no
- Finis James Garrett D-TN voted no
- Eugene Black D-TX voted no
- Martin Dies D-TX voted no
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX voted no
- Rufus Hardy D-TX voted no
- George Farmer Burgess D-TX voted no
- Oscar Callaway D-TX voted no
- James Luther Slayden D-TX voted no
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA voted no
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL
- George Huddleston D-AL
- John William Abercrombie D-AL
- Thaddeus Horatius Caraway D-AR
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR
- John Newton Tillman D-AR
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- Henderson Madison Jacoway D-AR
- Samuel Mitchell Taylor D-AR
- William Shields Goodwin D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- William Kent I-CA
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA
- John Arthur Elston O-CA
- Denver Samuel Church D-CA
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA
- Charles Hiram Randall O-CA
- William Dennison Stephens O-CA
- William Kettner D-CA
- Benjamin Clark Hilliard D-CO
- Charles Bateman Timberlake R-CO
- Edward Keating D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Peter Davis Oakey R-CT
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- Ebenezer J. Hill R-CT
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- Thomas Woodnutt Miller R-DE
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA
- William Schley Howard D-GA
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- Harry Edward Hull R-IA
- Burton Erwin Sweet R-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- James William Good R-IA
- Christian William Ramseyer R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Horace Mann Towner R-IA
- William Raymond Green R-IA
- Frank Plowman Woods R-IA
- Thomas Jefferson Steele D-IA
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Robert McDowell Mccracken R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- William Warfield Wilson R-IL
- James Thomas Mcdermott D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Frank Buchanan D-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- George Edmund Foss R-IL
- Ira Clifton Copley O-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL
- Clyde Howard Tavenner D-IL
- Edward John King R-IL
- Claudius Ulysses Stone D-IL
- John Allen Sterling R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- William Brown Mckinley R-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- Loren Edgar Wheeler R-IL
- William August Rodenberg R-IL
- Martin David Foster D-IL
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- Burnett Mitchell Chiperfield R-IL
- William Elza Williams D-IL
- Charles Lieb D-IN
- William Elijah Cox D-IN
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN
- Ralph Wilbur Moss D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- Merrill Moores R-IN
- William Robert Wood R-IN
- George Washington Rauch D-IN
- Cyrus Cline D-IN
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Joseph Taggart D-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS
- Guy Tresillian Helvering D-KS
- John Robert Connelly D-KS
- Jouett Shouse D-KS
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- David Hayes Kincheloe 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
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- Whitmell Pugh Martin O-LA
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA
- Lewis Lovering Morgan D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- 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
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA
- Ernest William Roberts R-MA
- Peter Francis Tague D-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- William Henry Carter R-MA
- Richard Olney D-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- Joseph Walsh R-MA
- Jesse Dashiell Price D-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Asher Crosby Hinds R-ME
- Daniel John Mcgillicuddy D-ME
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Frank Edward Guernsey R-ME
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI
- Samuel Willard Beakes D-MI
- John M. C. Smith R-MI
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Patrick Henry Kelley R-MI
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- George Alvin Loud R-MI
- Frank Douglas Scott R-MI
- William Francis James R-MI
- Charles Archibald Nichols R-MI
- Sydney Anderson R-MN
- Franklin Fowler Ellsworth R-MN
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- George Ross Smith R-MN
- Charles August Lindbergh R-MN
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- Thomas David Schall O-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
- Jacob Edwin Meeker R-MO
- William Leo Igoe D-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Walter Lewis Hensley D-MO
- Joseph James Russell D-MO
- Perl D. Decker D-MO
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- Tom Stout D-MT
- Henry Thomas Helgesen R-ND
- George Morley Young R-ND
- Patrick Daniel Norton R-ND
- Charles Frank Reavis R-NE
- Charles Otto Lobeck D-NE
- Dan Voorhees Stephens D-NE
- Charles Henry Sloan R-NE
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE
- Cyrus Adams Sulloway R-NH
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH
- William John Browning R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ
- Elijah Cubberley Hutchinson R-NJ
- John Henry Capstick R-NJ
- Archibald Chapman Hart D-NJ
- Dow Henry Drukker R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- Benigno Cárdenas Hernández R-NM
- Frederick Cocks Hicks R-NY
- Charles Pope Caldwell D-NY
- Joseph Vincent Flynn D-NY
- Harry Howard Dale D-NY
- James Paul Maher D-NY
- Frederick William Rowe R-NY
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Griffin D-NY
- Oscar William Swift R-NY
- Reuben Locke Haskell R-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Meyer London O-NY
- George William Loft D-NY
- Michael Francis Conry D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Thomas Gedney Patten D-NY
- Walter Marion Chandler O-NY
- Isaac Siegel R-NY
- George Murray Hulbert D-NY
- Henry Bruckner D-NY
- William Stiles Bennet R-NY
- Woodson Ratcliffe Oglesby D-NY
- James William Husted R-NY
- Edmund Platt R-NY
- Charles Bonnell Ward R-NY
- Rollin Brewster Sanford R-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- William Barclay Charles R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY
- Homer Peter Snyder R-NY
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY
- Walter Warren Magee R-NY
- Norman Judd Gould R-NY
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY
- Henry Gold Danforth R-NY
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY
- Charles Mann Hamilton R-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Alfred Gaither Allen D-OH
- Warren Gard D-OH
- Joshua Edward Russell R-OH
- Nelson Edwin Matthews R-OH
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- John Alexander Key D-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH
- Edwin Darlington Ricketts R-OH
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH
- Arthur Warren Overmyer D-OH
- Seward Henry Williams R-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- David Adams Hollingsworth R-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- William Gordon D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Henry Ivory Emerson R-OH
- James Sanford Davenport D-OK
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- William Henry David Murray D-OK
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- Clifton Nesmith Mcarthur R-OR
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- Peter Edward Costello R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- John Richard Farr R-PA
- John Joseph Casey D-PA
- Robert Douglas Heaton R-PA
- Arthur Granville Dewalt D-PA
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA
- Warren Worth Bailey D-PA
- Cyrus William Beales R-PA
- Abraham Lincoln Keister R-PA
- Robert Freeman Hopwood R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Michael Liebel Jr. D-PA
- William Henry Coleman R-PA
- Andrew Jackson Barchfeld R-PA
- Daniel Franklin Lafean R-PA
- John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott R-PA
- Mahlon Morris Garland R-PA
- Thomas Spencer Crago R-PA
- George Francis O'Shaunessy D-RI
- Walter Russell Stiness R-RI
- Ambrose Kennedy R-RI
- Charles Hall Dillon R-SD
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- Harry Luther Gandy D-SD
- Sam Riley Sells R-TN
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN
- Kenneth Douglas Mckellar D-TN
- James Young D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Robert Lee Henry D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- William Robert Smith D-TX
- Atkins Jefferson Mclemore D-TX
- James Harvey (Cyclone) Davis D-TX
- Joseph Howell R-UT
- James Henry Mays D-UT
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Carter Glass D-VA
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- Frank Lester Greene R-VT
- Porter Hinman Dale R-VT
- William Ewart Humphrey R-WA
- Lindley Hoag Hadley R-WA
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- William Leroy La Follette R-WA
- Clarence Cleveland Dill D-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- Michael Edmund Burke D-WI
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- William Joseph Cary R-WI
- John Jacob Esch R-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
- Adam Brown Littlepage D-WV
- Edward Cooper R-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL
- Frank Clark D-FL
- Emmett Wilson D-FL
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- Frank Park D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- James Walter Wise D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Samuel Joelah Tribble D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- John Randall Walker D-GA
- Dudley Mays Hughes D-GA
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- William Webb Venable D-MS
- Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison D-MS
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- George Ezekial Hood D-NC
- Edward William Pou 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 Jefferson Britt R-NC
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- Richard Smith Whaley D-SC
- James Francis Byrnes D-SC
- Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- Samuel Jones Nicholls D-SC
- David Edward Finley D-SC
- James Willard Ragsdale D-SC
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- William Cannon Houston D-TN
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- Eugene Black D-TX
- Martin Dies D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- George Farmer Burgess D-TX
- Oscar Callaway D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
Did not vote
- Oscar Lee Gray D-AL
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL
- Henry Stanley Benedict R-CA
- Stephen Milancthon Sparkman D-FL
- Tinsley White Rucker D-GA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- William Allen Cullop D-IN
- John Alfred Adair D-IN
- Martin Andrew Morrison D-IN
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- Caleb Powers R-KY
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA
- Carl Chester Van Dyke D-MN
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- Edward Winthrop Gray R-NJ
- Edwin Ewing Roberts R-NV
- Michael Francis Farley D-NY
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY
- Harry Hayt Pratt R-NY
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY
- Daniel Angelus Driscoll D-NY
- William Crittenden Mooney R-OH
- Roscoe Conkling Mcculloch R-OH
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA
- Charles Hedding Rowland R-PA
- Henry Joseph Steele D-PA
- Solomon Taylor North R-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- Paul Grier Mccorkle D-SC
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- John Hall Stephens D-TX
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- James Hay D-VA
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA
- William Henry Stafford R-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- George Meade Bowers R-WV
- William Gay Brown Jr. D-WV
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
- Hunter Holmes Moss Jr. R-WV
- Howard Sutherland R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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Capitol Receipts, “To pass H. R. 8234 (39 stat. 675, sept. 1…: House Vote, Feb 2, 1916,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/64-H-10/to-pass-h-r-8234-39-stat-675-sept (accessed 2026-10-17).