House roll call 21 · 64th Congress · Mar 7, 1916
To table H. RES. 147. (p. 3720)
On Mar 7, 1916, the House voted 276–142 (HRE 147). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 183–34, Republicans 93–103, Others 2–6, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 127 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
- 276
- No
- 142
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Mar 7, 1916
By party
- Democrats183 yes · 34 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
- Republicans93 yes · 103 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 6 no
Who broke with their party
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA voted yes
- Denver Samuel Church D-CA voted no
- Benjamin Clark Hilliard D-CO voted no
- Edward Keating D-CO voted no
- Peter Davis Oakey R-CT voted yes
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT voted yes
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT voted yes
- James Peter Glynn R-CT voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Steele D-IA voted no
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID voted yes
- Robert McDowell Mccracken R-ID voted yes
- Frank Buchanan D-IL voted no
- George Edmund Foss R-IL voted yes
- Clyde Howard Tavenner D-IL voted no
- Martin David Foster D-IL voted no
- Merrill Moores R-IN voted yes
- Jouett Shouse D-KS voted no
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA voted yes
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA voted yes
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA voted yes
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA voted yes
- John Jacob Rogers R-MA voted yes
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA voted yes
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA voted yes
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA voted yes
- William Henry Carter R-MA voted yes
- William Stedman Greene R-MA voted yes
- Joseph Walsh R-MA voted yes
- Asher Crosby Hinds R-ME voted yes
- John Andrew Peters R-ME voted yes
- Frank Edward Guernsey R-ME voted yes
- John M. C. Smith R-MI voted yes
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI voted yes
- Patrick Henry Kelley R-MI voted yes
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI voted yes
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI voted yes
- George Alvin Loud R-MI voted yes
- Frank Douglas Scott R-MI voted yes
- William Francis James R-MI voted yes
- Charles Archibald Nichols R-MI voted yes
- Carl Chester Van Dyke D-MN voted no
- William Leo Igoe D-MO voted no
- Walter Lewis Hensley D-MO voted no
- Perl D. Decker D-MO voted no
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS voted no
- James Jefferson Britt R-NC voted yes
- Charles Otto Lobeck D-NE voted no
- Dan Voorhees Stephens D-NE voted no
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE voted no
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH voted yes
- William John Browning R-NJ voted yes
- Edward Winthrop Gray R-NJ voted yes
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ voted yes
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ voted yes
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ voted no
- Frederick Cocks Hicks R-NY voted yes
- Joseph Vincent Flynn D-NY voted no
- Harry Howard Dale D-NY voted no
- Frederick William Rowe R-NY voted yes
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY voted no
- Oscar William Swift R-NY voted yes
- Reuben Locke Haskell R-NY voted yes
- Henry Bruckner D-NY voted no
- James William Husted R-NY voted yes
- Edmund Platt R-NY voted yes
- Charles Bonnell Ward R-NY voted yes
- Rollin Brewster Sanford R-NY voted yes
- James Southworth Parker R-NY voted yes
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY voted yes
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY voted yes
- Homer Peter Snyder R-NY voted yes
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY voted yes
- Walter Warren Magee R-NY voted yes
- Norman Judd Gould R-NY voted yes
- Harry Hayt Pratt R-NY voted yes
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY voted yes
- Henry Gold Danforth R-NY voted yes
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY voted yes
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY voted no
- Charles Mann Hamilton R-NY voted yes
And 47 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Oscar Lee Gray D-AL
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL
- Edward Berton Almon 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
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- Charles Hiram Randall O-CA
- William Kettner D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Peter Davis Oakey R-CT
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- Stephen Milancthon Sparkman D-FL
- Frank Clark D-FL
- Emmett Wilson D-FL
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA
- Frank Park D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- William Schley Howard 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
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Robert McDowell Mccracken R-ID
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- George Edmund Foss R-IL
- Claudius Ulysses Stone D-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-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
- Martin Andrew Morrison D-IN
- George Washington Rauch D-IN
- Cyrus Cline D-IN
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- Joseph Taggart D-KS
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS
- Guy Tresillian Helvering D-KS
- John Robert Connelly 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
- Henry Garland Dupré 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
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA
- Frederick William Dallinger 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
- 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
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Patrick Henry Kelley 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
- 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
- Joseph James Russell D-MO
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- William Webb Venable 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
- 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
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH
- William John Browning R-NJ
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ
- Archibald Chapman Hart D-NJ
- Edward Winthrop Gray R-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ
- Frederick Cocks Hicks R-NY
- Charles Pope Caldwell D-NY
- James Paul Maher D-NY
- Frederick William Rowe R-NY
- Daniel Joseph Griffin D-NY
- Oscar William Swift R-NY
- Reuben Locke Haskell R-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Michael Francis Farley D-NY
- Michael Francis Conry D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Thomas Gedney Patten D-NY
- George Murray Hulbert D-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
- 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
- Harry Hayt Pratt R-NY
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY
- Henry Gold Danforth R-NY
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY
- Charles Mann Hamilton R-NY
- Alfred Gaither Allen D-OH
- Warren Gard D-OH
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- John Alexander Key D-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH
- Arthur Warren Overmyer D-OH
- Seward Henry Williams R-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-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
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- Clifton Nesmith Mcarthur R-OR
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- John Richard Farr R-PA
- John Joseph Casey D-PA
- Arthur Granville Dewalt D-PA
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA
- Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA
- Cyrus William Beales R-PA
- Abraham Lincoln Keister R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Michael Liebel Jr. D-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
- Daniel Franklin Lafean R-PA
- John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott R-PA
- Thomas Spencer Crago R-PA
- George Francis O'Shaunessy D-RI
- Walter Russell Stiness R-RI
- Ambrose Kennedy R-RI
- 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
- Harry Luther Gandy D-SD
- Sam Riley Sells 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
- James Young D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- William Robert Smith D-TX
- Joseph Howell R-UT
- James Henry Mays D-UT
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- Carter Glass D-VA
- James Hay D-VA
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-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
- Clarence Cleveland Dill D-WA
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Adam Brown Littlepage D-WV
- Edward Cooper R-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Kent I-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
- William Dennison Stephens O-CA
- Benjamin Clark Hilliard D-CO
- Charles Bateman Timberlake R-CO
- Edward Keating D-CO
- Ebenezer J. Hill R-CT
- Thomas Woodnutt Miller R-DE
- 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
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- William Warfield Wilson R-IL
- Frank Buchanan D-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten 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
- John Allen Sterling R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- William Brown Mckinley R-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 Robert Wood R-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- Jouett Shouse D-KS
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- Caleb Powers R-KY
- Ernest William Roberts R-MA
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- Sydney Anderson R-MN
- Franklin Fowler Ellsworth R-MN
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Carl Chester Van Dyke D-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
- Jacob Edwin Meeker R-MO
- William Leo Igoe D-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Walter Lewis Hensley D-MO
- Perl D. Decker D-MO
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- 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
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- Elijah Cubberley Hutchinson R-NJ
- John Henry Capstick R-NJ
- Dow Henry Drukker R-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- Benigno Cárdenas Hernández R-NM
- Edwin Ewing Roberts R-NV
- Joseph Vincent Flynn D-NY
- Harry Howard Dale D-NY
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- Meyer London O-NY
- Walter Marion Chandler O-NY
- Isaac Siegel R-NY
- Henry Bruckner D-NY
- William Stiles Bennet R-NY
- William Barclay Charles R-NY
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Joshua Edward Russell R-OH
- Nelson Edwin Matthews R-OH
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH
- Edwin Darlington Ricketts R-OH
- William Crittenden Mooney R-OH
- Roscoe Conkling Mcculloch R-OH
- David Adams Hollingsworth R-OH
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- Peter Edward Costello R-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- Robert Douglas Heaton R-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Warren Worth Bailey D-PA
- Charles Hedding Rowland R-PA
- Robert Freeman Hopwood R-PA
- William Henry Coleman R-PA
- Andrew Jackson Barchfeld R-PA
- Mahlon Morris Garland R-PA
- Charles Hall Dillon R-SD
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN
- Eugene Black D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- George Farmer Burgess D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Oscar Callaway D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- Atkins Jefferson Mclemore D-TX
- James Harvey (Cyclone) Davis D-TX
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- William Leroy La Follette R-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- Michael Edmund Burke D-WI
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- William Joseph Cary R-WI
- William Henry Stafford R-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-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
- Hunter Holmes Moss Jr. R-WV
- Howard Sutherland R-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
Did not vote
- Henry Stanley Benedict R-CA
- Tinsley White Rucker D-GA
- James Thomas Mcdermott D-IL
- William Allen Cullop D-IN
- John Alfred Adair D-IN
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- George William Loft D-NY
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY
- Daniel Angelus Driscoll D-NY
- Paul Grier Mccorkle D-SC
- Martin Dies D-TX
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- Robert Lee Henry D-TX
- John Hall Stephens D-TX
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA
- George Meade Bowers R-WV
- William Gay Brown Jr. D-WV
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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