House roll call 101 · 65th Congress · Mar 15, 1918
To pass S. 1854, (40 stat-450, mar. 19, 1918), to save daylight and to provide standard time for the United States. (p. 3549 3583 3582)
On Mar 15, 1918, the House voted 253–40 (S 1854). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 118–36, Republicans 131–4, Others 4–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 40 members voted against their own party.
During the 65th Congress (1917–1918), Woodrow Wilson was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 253
- No
- 40
- Did not vote
- 162
- Date
- Mar 15, 1918
By party
- Democrats118 yes · 36 no · 72 didn’t vote
- Republicans131 yes · 4 no · 88 didn’t vote
- Others4 yes · 0 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Oscar Lee Gray D-AL voted no
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL voted no
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL voted no
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL voted no
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL voted no
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL voted no
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL voted no
- George Huddleston D-AL voted no
- Thaddeus Horatius Caraway D-AR voted no
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR voted no
- Samuel Mitchell Taylor D-AR voted no
- William Shields Goodwin D-AR voted no
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted no
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO voted no
- James Whetstone Overstreet D-GA voted no
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA voted no
- William Carter Wright D-GA voted no
- Gordon Lee D-GA voted no
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA voted no
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA voted no
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted no
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL voted no
- John Robert Connelly D-KS voted no
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY voted no
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY voted no
- Ben Johnson D-KY voted no
- Jesse Dashiell Price D-MD voted no
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI voted no
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO voted no
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS voted no
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS voted no
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS voted no
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC voted no
- Charles Otto Lobeck D-NE voted no
- Roscoe Conkling Mcculloch R-OH voted no
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR voted no
- Frederick Haskell Dominick D-SC voted no
- William Francis Stevenson D-SC voted no
- John Nance Garner D-TX voted no
- Atkins Jefferson Mclemore D-TX voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR
- John Newton Tillman D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA
- John Arthur Elston R-CA
- Charles Hiram Randall O-CA
- Henry Zenas Osborne R-CA
- William Kettner D-CA
- Benjamin Clark Hilliard D-CO
- Charles Bateman Timberlake R-CO
- Edward Keating D-CO
- Augustine Lonergan D-CT
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- Albert Fawcett Polk D-DE
- Frank Park D-GA
- William Schley Howard D-GA
- William Washington Larsen D-GA
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- Burton Erwin Sweet R-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen 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
- George Cromwell Scott R-IA
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- William Warfield Wilson R-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Niels Juul R-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- William Johnson Graham R-IL
- Clifford Cady Ireland R-IL
- John Allen Sterling R-IL
- William Brown Mckinley R-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- Loren Edgar Wheeler R-IL
- Martin David Foster D-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- George Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Oscar Edward Bland R-IN
- William Elijah Cox D-IN
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN
- Richard Nash Elliott R-IN
- Merrill Moores R-IN
- Fred Sampson Purnell R-IN
- William Robert Wood R-IN
- Louis William Fairfield R-IN
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- Edward Campbell Little R-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- Harvey Helm D-KY
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- Whitmell Pugh Martin O-LA
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA
- Jared Young Sanders D-LA
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA
- John Jacob Rogers R-MA
- Willfred Weymouth Lufkin R-MA
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA
- Alvan Tufts Fuller O-MA
- Peter Francis Tague D-MA
- Richard Olney D-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- Joseph Walsh R-MA
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Frederick Nicholas Zihlman R-MD
- Louis Bertrand Goodall R-ME
- Wallace Humphrey White Jr. R-ME
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Ira Greenlief Hersey 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
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Frank Douglas Scott R-MI
- Sydney Anderson R-MN
- Franklin Fowler Ellsworth R-MN
- Carl Chester Van Dyke D-MN
- Ernest Lundeen R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN
- Joshua Willis Alexander 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
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- William Webb Venable D-MS
- Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- Jeannette Rankin R-MT
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- Leonidas Dunlap Robinson D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- John Miller Baer R-ND
- George Morley Young R-ND
- Charles Frank Reavis R-NE
- Charles Henry Sloan R-NE
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE
- Sherman Everett Burroughs R-NH
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH
- William John Browning R-NJ
- John Rathbone Ramsey R-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ
- William Bell Walton D-NM
- Edwin Ewing Roberts R-NV
- Frederick Cocks Hicks R-NY
- Harry Howard Dale D-NY
- James Paul Maher D-NY
- Frederick William Rowe R-NY
- William Edward Cleary D-NY
- Oscar William Swift R-NY
- Reuben Locke Haskell R-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY
- Daniel Charles Oliver D-NY
- Edmund Platt R-NY
- Rollin Brewster Sanford R-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY
- Walter Warren Magee R-NY
- Norman Judd Gould R-NY
- Harry Hayt Pratt R-NY
- Archie Dovell Sanders R-NY
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY
- William Frederick Waldow R-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Warren Gard D-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Welty D-OH
- John Stout Snook D-OH
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- Horatio Clifford Claypool D-OH
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH
- Arthur Warren Overmyer D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Henry Ivory Emerson R-OH
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- Clifton Nesmith Mcarthur R-OR
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- John Richard Farr R-PA
- Arthur Granville Dewalt D-PA
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA
- John Marshall Rose R-PA
- Edward Everett Robbins R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Henry Joseph Steele D-PA
- Nathan Leroy Strong R-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly O-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
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- Charles Hall Dillon R-SD
- 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
- Hubert Frederick Fisher D-TN
- Eugene Black D-TX
- James Young D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX
- James Clifton Wilson D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- James Henry Mays D-UT
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- Carter Glass D-VA
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- Porter Hinman Dale R-VT
- John Franklin Miller R-WA
- Lindley Hoag Hadley R-WA
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- Clarence Cleveland Dill D-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- Edward Voigt R-WI
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- William Joseph Cary R-WI
- William Henry Stafford R-WI
- John Jacob Esch R-WI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- David Guy Classon R-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- George Meade Bowers R-WV
- Stuart Felix Reed R-WV
- Edward Cooper R-WV
- Adam Brown Littlepage D-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Oscar Lee Gray 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
- Thaddeus Horatius Caraway D-AR
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- Samuel Mitchell Taylor D-AR
- William Shields Goodwin D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- James Whetstone Overstreet D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- William Carter Wright D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- John Robert Connelly D-KS
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- Jesse Dashiell Price D-MD
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Charles Otto Lobeck D-NE
- Roscoe Conkling Mcculloch R-OH
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Frederick Haskell Dominick D-SC
- William Francis Stevenson D-SC
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- Atkins Jefferson Mclemore D-TX
Did not vote
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- Henderson Madison Jacoway D-AR
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- Denver Samuel Church D-CA
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- Ebenezer J. Hill R-CT
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL
- Frank Clark D-FL
- James Walter Kehoe D-FL
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- James Walter Wise D-GA
- John Randall Walker D-GA
- Harry Edward Hull R-IA
- James William Good R-IA
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- Charles Martin D-IL
- John William Rainey D-IL
- George Edmund Foss R-IL
- Ira Clifton Copley R-IL
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL
- Edward John King R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- William August Rodenberg R-IL
- Joseph Medill Mccormick R-IL
- Everett Sanders R-IN
- Daniel Webster Comstock R-IN
- Albert Henry Vestal R-IN
- Milton Kraus R-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Guy Tresillian Helvering D-KS
- Jouett Shouse D-KS
- William Jason Fields D-KY
- Caleb Powers R-KY
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- William Henry Carter R-MA
- Carville Dickinson Benson D-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Mark Reeves Bacon R-MI
- Patrick Henry Kelley R-MI
- Gilbert Archibald Currie R-MI
- William Francis James R-MI
- Charles Archibald Nichols R-MI
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- Thomas David Schall O-MN
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- Frederick Essen R-MO
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- George Ezekial Hood D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- James Jefferson Britt R-NC
- Henry Thomas Helgesen R-ND
- Patrick Daniel Norton R-ND
- Dan Voorhees Stephens D-NE
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ
- Elijah Cubberley Hutchinson R-NJ
- John Henry Capstick R-NJ
- William Fred Birch R-NJ
- Dow Henry Drukker R-NJ
- Edward Winthrop Gray R-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- Charles Pope Caldwell D-NY
- Joseph Vincent Flynn D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Griffin D-NY
- Meyer London O-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Fiorello Henry La Guardia R-NY
- Thomas Francis Smith D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- George Blinn Francis R-NY
- Walter Marion Chandler R-NY
- Isaac Siegel R-NY
- George Murray Hulbert D-NY
- Jerome Francis Donovan D-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Henry Bruckner D-NY
- Benjamin Lewis Fairchild R-NY
- James William Husted R-NY
- Charles Bonnell Ward R-NY
- George Richard Lunn D-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Homer Peter Snyder R-NY
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY
- Charles Mann Hamilton R-NY
- Victor Heintz R-OH
- John Alexander Key D-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH
- Elsworth Raymond Bathrick D-OH
- Martin Luther Davey D-OH
- George White D-OH
- David Adams Hollingsworth R-OH
- William Gordon D-OH
- Thomas Alberter Chandler R-OK
- Thomas Deitz Mckeown D-OK
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- Peter Edward Costello R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- Thomas Weir Templeton R-PA
- Robert Douglas Heaton R-PA
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA
- Andrew R. Brodbeck D-PA
- Charles Hedding Rowland R-PA
- Bruce Foster Sterling D-PA
- Henry Alden Clark R-PA
- Earl Hanley Beshlin D-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- Guy Edgar Campbell D-PA
- John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott R-PA
- Joseph Mclaughlin R-PA
- Mahlon Morris Garland R-PA
- Thomas Spencer Crago R-PA
- Samuel Jones Nicholls D-SC
- James Willard Ragsdale D-SC
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN
- Martin Dies D-TX
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX
- Milton Holmes Welling D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA
- James Pleasant Woods D-VA
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- Frank Lester Greene R-VT
- William Leroy La Follette R-WA
- Florian Lampert R-WI
- James Henry Davidson R-WI
- Adolphus Peter Nelson R-WI
- Irvine Luther Lenroot R-WI
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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