House roll call 139 · 48th Congress · Jun 24, 1884
To amend S. 1727 (23 stat 60-june 27, 1884), a bill granting to letter-carriers at free delivery offices fifteen days leave of absence, by prohibiting leave of
On Jun 24, 1884, the House voted 109–117 (S 1727). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 108–37, Republicans 0–73, Others 1–6, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 37 members voted against their own party.
During the 48th Congress (1883–1884), Chester A. Arthur was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 109
- No
- 117
- Did not vote
- 113
- Date
- Jun 24, 1884
By party
- Democrats108 yes · 37 no · 56 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 73 no · 51 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 6 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Herbert Budd D-CA voted no
- Charles Allen Sumner D-CA voted no
- John Raglan Glascock D-CA voted no
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE voted no
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA voted no
- James Milton Riggs D-IL voted no
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY voted no
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY voted no
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA voted no
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA voted no
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD voted no
- John Cosgrove D-MO voted no
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO voted no
- William Henry Frederick Fiedler D-NJ voted no
- William Mcadoo D-NJ voted no
- Perry Belmont D-NY voted no
- Felix Campbell D-NY voted no
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted no
- John Hardy D-NY voted no
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY voted no
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY voted no
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY voted no
- Lewis Beach D-NY voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY voted no
- Edward Wemple D-NY voted no
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY voted no
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY voted no
- Robert Smith Stevens D-NY voted no
- John Fassett Follett D-OH voted no
- Isaac M. Jordan D-OH voted no
- George Washington Geddes D-OH voted no
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH voted no
- William Mutchler D-PA voted no
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC voted no
- George William Dargan D-SC voted no
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN voted no
- Burr W. Jones D-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- Thomas Williams D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- William Starke Rosecrans D-CA
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- Pleasant Britton Tully D-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Hugh Buchanan D-GA
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- Thomas Hardeman Jr. D-GA
- William Henry Mills Pusey D-IA
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- William Eastin English D-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Wood D-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- Oscar Turner O-KY
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Carleton Hunt D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Edward Taylor Lewis D-LA
- George Washington Covington D-MD
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- George Lewis Yaple D-MI
- Julius Houseman D-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO
- James Overton Broadhead D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Henry Smith Van Eaton D-MS
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- Clement Dowd D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- Thomas Merrill Ferrell D-NJ
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Robert Maynard Murray D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- Jonathan Hasson Wallace D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Daniel Ward Connolly D-PA
- George Adams Post D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- John Denniston Patton D-PA
- Mortimer Fitzland Elliott D-PA
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Richard Warner D-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- James Henry Jones D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- James Francis Miller D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- John Hancock D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- George Tankard Garrison D-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- John Winans D-WI
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- James Herbert Budd D-CA
- Charles Allen Sumner D-CA
- John Raglan Glascock D-CA
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Luman Hamlin Weller O-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- John Frederick Finerty O-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- Theodore Lyman O-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Herschel Harrison Hatch R-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- John Cosgrove D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- Tyre York O-NC
- James Laird R-NE
- Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE
- Ossian Ray R-NH
- John Kean R-NJ
- Benjamin Franklin Howey R-NJ
- William Henry Frederick Fiedler D-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- John Hardy D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- Edward Wemple D-NY
- George Washington Ray R-NY
- Charles Rufus Skinner R-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY
- Robert Smith Stevens D-NY
- Francis Beattie Brewer R-NY
- John Fassett Follett D-OH
- Isaac M. Jordan D-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- Alphonso Hart R-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- Thomas Peck Ochiltree I-TX
- Harry Libbey O-VA
- Henry Bowen O-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- Burr W. Jones D-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- George Henry Craig R-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- John Calhoun Nicholls D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- Hiram Ypsilanti Smith R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- George Royal Davis R-IL
- William Cullen R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Stanton Judkins Peelle R-IN
- John Edward Lamb D-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively O-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- James Franklin Clay D-KY
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- William Wirt Culbertson R-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- William Augustus Russell R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Hart Benton Holton R-MD
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Edward Samuel Lacey R-MI
- Edward Breitung R-MI
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- Alexander Graves D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Robert Washington Fyan D-MO
- James Ronald Chalmers I-MS
- Elza Jeffords R-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- John Hart Brewer R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- William Dorsheimer D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- William Findlay Rogers D-NY
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- James Sidney Robinson R-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- John Watts Mccormick R-OH
- George Leroy Converse D-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- David Raymond Paige D-OH
- Melvin Clark George R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm O-PA
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- William Addison Duncan D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Samuel Myron Brainerd R-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- John Bratton D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- Robert Murphy Mayo O-VA
- Benjamin Stephen Hooper O-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Sergeant Wise O-VA
- Daniel Hadley Sumner D-WI
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Gilbert Motier Woodward D-WI
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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