To table an appeal from the chair ruling that the motion to discharge the committee on woman suffrage was not debatable.

On May 26, 1919, the Senate voted 27–64 (HJR 1). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 8–41, Democrats 19–23. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 27 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: 27
No: 64
Did not vote: 10
Date: May 26, 1919

By party

Democrats19 yes · 23 no · 8 didn’t vote
Republicans8 yes · 41 no · 2 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

John Hollis Bankhead D-AL voted yes
Oscar Wilder Underwood D-AL voted yes
Frank Bosworth Brandegee R-CT voted yes
Josiah Oliver Wolcott D-DE voted yes
Duncan Upshaw Fletcher D-FL voted yes
Park Trammell D-FL voted yes
Hoke Smith D-GA voted yes
William Edgar Borah R-ID voted yes
John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham D-KY voted yes
Edward James Gay D-LA voted yes
Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA voted yes
John Walter Smith D-MD voted yes
James Alexander Reed D-MO voted yes
Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison D-MS voted yes
Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC voted yes
Lee Slater Overman D-NC voted yes
George Higgins Moses R-NH voted yes
Albert Bacon Fall R-NM voted yes
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY voted yes
Thomas Pryor Gore D-OK voted yes
Boies Penrose R-PA voted yes
Ellison DuRant Smith D-SC voted yes
Nathaniel Barksdale Dial D-SC voted yes
John Knight Shields D-TN voted yes
William Henry King D-UT voted yes
Claude Augustus Swanson D-VA voted yes
William Paul Dillingham R-VT voted yes

How each senator voted: Yes

How each senator voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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