To recede from the rejection of Senate amendment #93 to the agricultural department appropriation bill for fiscal year ending 1921, H.R. 12272, (app. 5-31-1920)

On May 24, 1920, the House voted 108–203 (HR 12272). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 85–86, Democrats 23–115, Others 0–3. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 108 members voted against their own party.

During the 66th Congress (1919–1920), Woodrow Wilson was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 108
No: 203
Did not vote: 141
Date: May 24, 1920

By party

Democrats23 yes · 115 no · 64 didn’t vote
Republicans85 yes · 86 no · 77 didn’t vote
Others0 yes · 3 no

Who broke with their party

Henry Ellsworth Barbour R-CA voted yes
Hugh Steel Hersman D-CA voted yes
Augustine Lonergan D-CT voted yes
Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT voted yes
John Quillin Tilson R-CT voted yes
Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA voted yes
Christian William Ramseyer R-IA voted yes
Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA voted yes
Horace Mann Towner R-IA voted yes
William Raymond Green R-IA voted yes
Lester Jesse Dickinson R-IA voted yes
Burton Lee French R-ID voted yes
Carl Richard Chindblom R-IL voted yes
William Johnson Graham R-IL voted yes
Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted yes
William Brown Mckinley R-IL voted yes
Loren Edgar Wheeler R-IL voted yes
Richard Yates R-IL voted yes
Richard Nash Elliott R-IN voted yes
Milton Kraus R-IN voted yes
Louis William Fairfield R-IN voted yes
Andrew James Hickey R-IN voted yes
Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS voted yes
James George Strong R-KS voted yes
Allen Towner Treadway R-MA voted yes
Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA voted yes
John Jacob Rogers R-MA voted yes
Frederick William Dallinger R-MA voted yes
Alvan Tufts Fuller R-MA voted yes
George Holden Tinkham R-MA voted yes
James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA voted yes
Robert Luce R-MA voted yes
Joseph Walsh R-MA voted yes
Louis Bertrand Goodall R-ME voted yes
Wallace Humphrey White Jr. R-ME voted yes
John Andrew Peters R-ME voted yes
Earl Cory Michener R-MI voted yes
John M. C. Smith R-MI voted yes
Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI voted yes
Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI voted yes
Patrick Henry Kelley R-MI voted yes
Louis Convers Cramton R-MI voted yes
James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI voted yes
Gilbert Archibald Currie R-MI voted yes
Frank Douglas Scott R-MI voted yes
William Francis James R-MI voted yes
Sydney Anderson R-MN voted yes
Andrew John Volstead R-MN voted yes
John Morgan Evans D-MT voted yes
Edward William Pou D-NC voted yes
John Miller Baer R-ND voted yes
George Morley Young R-ND voted yes
James Herbert Sinclair R-ND voted yes
Charles Frank Reavis R-NE voted yes
Albert Webb Jefferis R-NE voted yes
Robert Emory Evans R-NE voted yes
Melvin Orlando Mclaughlin R-NE voted yes
William Ezekiel Andrews R-NE voted yes
Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE voted yes
Ernest Robinson Ackerman R-NJ voted yes
Amos Henry Radcliffe R-NJ voted yes
Daniel Francis Minahan D-NJ voted yes
Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ voted yes
Frederick Cocks Hicks R-NY voted yes
Herbert Claiborne Pell Jr. D-NY voted yes
Edmund Platt R-NY voted yes
Rollin Brewster Sanford R-NY voted yes
Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY voted yes
William Henry Hill R-NY voted yes
Walter Warren Magee R-NY voted yes
Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY voted yes
Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY voted yes
Simeon Davison Fess R-OH voted yes
Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH voted yes
Israel Moore Foster R-OH voted yes
Charles Ellis Moore R-OH voted yes
John Gordon Cooper R-OH voted yes
Charles Anthony Mooney D-OH voted yes
John Joseph Babka D-OH voted yes
Henry Ivory Emerson R-OH voted yes

And 28 more.

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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Capitol Receipts, “To recede from the rejection of Senate…: House Vote, May 24, 1920,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/66-H-226/to-recede-from-the-rejection-of-senate-amendment-93 (accessed 2026-10-17).