House roll call 54 · 68th Congress · Apr 12, 1924
To amend H.R. 7995 by placing the burden of proof of entry and deportation upon the alien. (p. 6256-2)
On Apr 12, 1924, the House voted 198–193 (HR 7995). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 53–147, Republicans 146–52, Others 3–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 105 members voted against their own party.
During the 68th Congress (1923–1924), Calvin Coolidge was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 198
- No
- 193
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- Apr 12, 1924
By party
- Democrats53 yes · 147 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Republicans146 yes · 52 no · 25 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- George Huddleston D-AL voted yes
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA voted no
- James Henry Maclafferty R-CA voted no
- Arthur Monroe Free R-CA voted no
- Walter Franklin Lineberger R-CA voted no
- John Donnan Fredericks R-CA voted no
- Philip David Swing R-CA voted no
- Patrick Brett O'Sullivan D-CT voted yes
- William Henry Boyce D-DE voted yes
- William Frederick Kopp R-IA voted no
- Thomas John Bright Robinson R-IA voted no
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA voted no
- Hiram Kinsman Evans R-IA voted no
- Lester Jesse Dickinson R-IA voted no
- Thomas Aloysius Doyle D-IL voted yes
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted yes
- James Richard Buckley D-IL voted yes
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL voted no
- Frank Hamilton Funk R-IL voted no
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL voted no
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL voted no
- Albert Henry Vestal R-IN voted no
- Fred Sampson Purnell R-IN voted no
- Louis William Fairfield R-IN voted no
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS voted no
- Edward Campbell Little R-KS voted no
- William Henry Sproul R-KS voted no
- Homer Hoch R-KS voted no
- James George Strong R-KS voted no
- Jasper Napoleon Tincher R-KS voted no
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY voted no
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA voted yes
- Peter Francis Tague D-MA voted yes
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA voted no
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA voted yes
- William Stedman Greene R-MA voted no
- John Edward Nelson R-ME voted no
- Ira Greenlief Hersey R-ME voted no
- Robert Henry Clancy D-MI voted yes
- John Clark Ketcham R-MI voted no
- Walter Hughes Newton R-MN voted no
- Charles Lee Faust R-MO voted no
- John Morgan Evans D-MT voted yes
- Edgar Howard D-NE voted yes
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE voted yes
- Robert Glenmore Simmons R-NE voted no
- William Nathaniel Rogers D-NH voted yes
- Elmer Hendrickson Geran D-NJ voted yes
- Charles Browne D-NJ voted yes
- Randolph Perkins R-NJ voted no
- Frank Joseph Mcnulty D-NJ voted yes
- Daniel Francis Minahan D-NJ voted yes
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ voted yes
- Charles Francis Xavier O'Brien D-NJ voted yes
- John Joseph Kindred D-NY voted yes
- George Washington Lindsay D-NY voted yes
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY voted yes
- Loring Milton Black Jr. D-NY voted yes
- Charles Irwin Stengle D-NY voted yes
- John Francis Quayle D-NY voted yes
- William Edward Cleary D-NY voted yes
- David Joseph O'Connell D-NY voted yes
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted yes
- Anning Smith Prall D-NY voted yes
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY voted yes
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY voted yes
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY voted yes
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY voted yes
- John Francis Carew D-NY voted yes
- Sol Bloom D-NY voted yes
- Royal Hurlburt Weller D-NY voted yes
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY voted yes
- Frank Oliver D-NY voted yes
- Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright R-NY voted no
- Parker Corning D-NY voted yes
- Meyer Jacobstein D-NY voted yes
- James Michael Mead D-NY voted yes
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
- John Levi Cable R-OH voted no
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH voted no
And 25 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- George Huddleston D-AL
- Mae Ella Nolan R-CA
- Henry Ellsworth Barbour R-CA
- William Newell Vaile R-CO
- Charles Bateman Timberlake R-CO
- Guy Urban Hardy R-CO
- Edward Hart Fenn R-CT
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- Patrick Brett O'Sullivan D-CT
- William Henry Boyce D-DE
- Harry Edward Hull R-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- Cyrenus Cole R-IA
- Christian William Ramseyer R-IA
- William Dayton Boies R-IA
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- Morton Denison Hull R-IL
- Elliott Wilford Sproul R-IL
- Thomas Aloysius Doyle D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- James Richard Buckley D-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- Carl Richard Chindblom R-IL
- Frank R. Reid R-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- William Johnson Graham R-IL
- Edward John King R-IL
- William Edgar Hull R-IL
- William Perry Holaday R-IL
- Allen Francis Moore R-IL
- Henry Riggs Rathbone R-IL
- Richard Yates R-IL
- Everett Sanders R-IN
- Richard Nash Elliott R-IN
- Merrill Moores R-IN
- William Robert Wood R-IN
- Andrew James Hickey R-IN
- Hays Baxter White R-KS
- Maurice Hudson Thatcher R-KY
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA
- John Jacob Rogers R-MA
- Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. R-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA
- Charles Lee Underhill R-MA
- Peter Francis Tague D-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- John Boynton Philip Clayton Hill R-MD
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Carroll Lynwood Beedy R-ME
- Wallace Humphrey White Jr. R-ME
- Robert Henry Clancy D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Arthur Bruce Williams R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Grant Martin Hudson R-MI
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- Bird J. Vincent R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frank Douglas Scott R-MI
- William Francis James R-MI
- Clarence John Mcleod R-MI
- Frank Clague R-MN
- Oscar Edward Keller R-MN
- Ole Juulson Kvale O-MN
- Oscar John Larson R-MN
- Knud Wefald O-MN
- Sidney Crain Roach R-MO
- Cleveland Alexander Newton R-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Joe Jonathan Manlove R-MO
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- Scott Leavitt R-MT
- Olger Burton Burtness R-ND
- George Morley Young R-ND
- James Herbert Sinclair R-ND
- Willis Gratz Sears R-NE
- Edgar Howard D-NE
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE
- William Nathaniel Rogers D-NH
- Francis Ford Patterson Jr. R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- Elmer Hendrickson Geran D-NJ
- Charles Browne D-NJ
- Ernest Robinson Ackerman R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Frank Joseph Mcnulty D-NJ
- Daniel Francis Minahan D-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ
- Charles Francis Xavier O'Brien D-NJ
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- John Joseph Kindred D-NY
- George Washington Lindsay D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Loring Milton Black Jr. D-NY
- Charles Irwin Stengle D-NY
- John Francis Quayle D-NY
- William Edward Cleary D-NY
- David Joseph O'Connell D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Anning Smith Prall D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Nathan David Perlman R-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- Ogden Livingston Mills R-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Fiorello Henry La Guardia R-NY
- Royal Hurlburt Weller D-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Frank Oliver D-NY
- Benjamin Lewis Fairchild R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Parker Corning D-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Thaddeus C. Sweet R-NY
- Homer Peter Snyder R-NY
- John Davenport Clarke R-NY
- Walter Warren Magee R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Gale Hamilton Stalker R-NY
- Meyer Jacobstein D-NY
- Archie Dovell Sanders R-NY
- Clarence Macgregor R-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Ambrose Everett Burnside Stephens R-OH
- Roy Gerald Fitzgerald R-OH
- Charles James Thompson R-OH
- Charles Brand R-OH
- Raymond Clinton Cole R-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Israel Moore Foster R-OH
- John Charles Speaks R-OH
- James Thomas Begg R-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Charles Anthony Mooney D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- Harry Clay Ransley R-PA
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- Laurence Hawley Watres R-PA
- John Joseph Casey D-PA
- George Franklin Brumm R-PA
- William Martin Croll D-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- Herbert Wesley Cummings D-PA
- Edward McMath Beers R-PA
- Frank Crawford Sites D-PA
- George M. Wertz R-PA
- Jacob Banks Kurtz R-PA
- Samuel Feiser Glatfelter D-PA
- William Irvin Swoope R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr. R-PA
- Nathan Leroy Strong R-PA
- Harris Jacob Bixler R-PA
- Adam Martin Wyant R-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- James McDevitt Magee R-PA
- Guy Edgar Campbell R-PA
- Clark Burdick R-RI
- Richard Steere Aldrich R-RI
- Jeremiah Edward O'Connell D-RI
- William Turner Logan D-SC
- Charles Andrew Christopherson R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Don Byron Colton R-UT
- Elmer O. Leatherwood R-UT
- Frederick Gleed Fleetwood R-VT
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- John William Summers R-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- John Charles Schafer R-WI
- Victor Luitpold Berger O-WI
- Florian Lampert R-WI
- Joseph David Beck R-WI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- George John Schneider R-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- Hubert Haskell Peavey R-WI
- Benjamin Louis Rosenbloom R-WV
How each representative voted: No
- John Mcduffie D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Lamar Jeffers D-AL
- William Bismarck Bowling D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- Miles Clayton Allgood D-AL
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR
- John Newton Tillman D-AR
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- Heartsill Ragon D-AR
- James Byron Reed D-AR
- Tilman Bacon Parks D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- James Henry Maclafferty R-CA
- Arthur Monroe Free R-CA
- Walter Franklin Lineberger R-CA
- John Donnan Fredericks R-CA
- Philip David Swing R-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- John Harris Smithwick D-FL
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- Robert Lee Moore D-GA
- Frank Park D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- William Carter Wright D-GA
- William David Upshaw D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- William Chester Lankford D-GA
- William Washington Larsen D-GA
- William Frederick Kopp R-IA
- Thomas John Bright Robinson R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Hiram Kinsman Evans R-IA
- Lester Jesse Dickinson R-IA
- Stanley Henry Kunz D-IL
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL
- Frank Hamilton Funk R-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- James Earl Major D-IL
- William Wright Arnold D-IL
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- William Edward Wilson D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- Frank Gardner D-IN
- Harry Clifford Canfield D-IN
- Albert Henry Vestal R-IN
- Fred Sampson Purnell R-IN
- Samuel Ellis Cook D-IN
- Louis William Fairfield R-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Edward Campbell Little R-KS
- William Henry Sproul R-KS
- Homer Hoch R-KS
- James George Strong R-KS
- Jasper Napoleon Tincher R-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
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- Joseph Watkins Morris D-KY
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- James O'Connor D-LA
- Whitmell Pugh Martin D-LA
- John Nicholas Sandlin D-LA
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Millard Evelyn Tydings D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- John Edward Nelson R-ME
- Ira Greenlief Hersey R-ME
- John Clark Ketcham R-MI
- Walter Hughes Newton R-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- Ralph Fulton Lozier D-MO
- Jacob Le Roy Milligan D-MO
- Charles Lee Faust R-MO
- Henry Lee Jost D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Samuel Collier Major D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Joseph Scott Wolff D-MO
- James Franklin Fulbright D-MO
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Bill Green Lowrey D-MS
- William Yerger Humphreys D-MS
- Thomas Jefferson Busby D-MS
- Thomas Webber Wilson D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- Hallett Sydney Ward D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Charles Laban Abernethy D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Homer Le Grand Lyon D-NC
- William Cicero Hammer D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- John Henry Morehead D-NE
- Robert Glenmore Simmons R-NE
- Randolph Perkins R-NJ
- John Morrow D-NM
- Charles Lenmore Richards D-NV
- Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- John Levi Cable R-OH
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH
- Mell Gilbert Underwood D-OH
- Martin Luther Davey D-OH
- Charles Ellis Moore R-OH
- William Mitchell Morgan R-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Murphy R-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Everette Burgess Howard D-OK
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Thomas Deitz Mckeown D-OK
- Fletcher B. Swank D-OK
- John William Elmer Thomas D-OK
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK
- Milton Cline Garber R-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- Elton Watkins D-OR
- Everett Kent D-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- James Francis Byrnes D-SC
- Frederick Haskell Dominick D-SC
- John Jackson Mcswain D-SC
- William Francis Stevenson D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- Ewin Lamar Davis D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- William Charles Salmon D-TN
- Gordon Weaver Browning D-TN
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- Hubert Frederick Fisher D-TN
- Eugene Black D-TX
- John Calvin Box D-TX
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Clay Stone Briggs D-TX
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Guinn Williams D-TX
- Harry McLeary Wurzbach R-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- Claude Benton Hudspeth D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Joseph Thomas Deal D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- James Murray Hooker D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA
- Robert Walton Moore D-VA
- George Campbell Peery D-VA
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
- Ernest Willard Gibson R-VT
- John Franklin Miller R-WA
- Lindley Hoag Hadley R-WA
- Samuel Billingsley Hill D-WA
- Robert Edward Lee Allen D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- Thomas Jefferson Lilly D-WV
- James Alfred Taylor D-WV
- Charles Edwin Winter R-WY
Voted present
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL
- Frank Clark D-FL
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- George Kent Favrot D-LA
- Louis Adams Frothingham R-MA
- Harry Bartow Hawes D-MO
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- Melvin Orlando Mclaughlin R-NE
- James Joseph Connolly R-PA
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA
Did not vote
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- James Walter Wise D-GA
- William Raymond Green R-IA
- John William Rainey D-IL
- Magne Alfred Michaelson R-IL
- Edward Edwin Miller R-IL
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- William Jason Fields D-KY
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- James Zacharie Spearing D-LA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA
- Robert Milton Leach R-MA
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- Frederick Nicholas Zihlman R-MD
- Sydney Anderson R-MN
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Thomas David Schall R-MN
- Thomas Hall R-ND
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH
- Charles Bonnell Ward R-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- George Austin Welsh R-PA
- Samuel Austin Kendall R-PA
- Milton William Shreve R-PA
- William Williamson R-SD
- Edward Voigt R-WI
- Stuart Felix Reed R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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