House roll call 278 · 48th Congress · Feb 2, 1885
To adjourn, made during debate on resolution relating to amendment to rules. (p. 1188)
On Feb 2, 1885, the House voted 66–68. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 56–32, Republicans 9–35, Others 1–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 41 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
- 66
- No
- 68
- Did not vote
- 205
- Date
- Feb 2, 1885
By party
- Democrats56 yes · 32 no · 113 didn’t vote
- Republicans9 yes · 35 no · 80 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 1 no · 10 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Herbert Budd D-CA voted no
- Charles Allen Sumner D-CA voted no
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT voted no
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT voted no
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE voted no
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL voted yes
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL voted yes
- John Robert Thomas R-IL voted yes
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN voted no
- John Daugherty White R-KY voted yes
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA voted no
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA voted yes
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA voted no
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA voted no
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD voted no
- Milo White R-MN voted yes
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO voted no
- Thomas Merrill Ferrell D-NJ voted no
- William Mcadoo D-NJ voted no
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV voted no
- William Dorsheimer D-NY voted no
- John Joseph Adams D-NY voted no
- John Hardy D-NY voted no
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY voted no
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. 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
- William David Hill D-OH voted no
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH voted yes
- George Adams Post D-PA voted no
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA voted yes
- Samuel Dibble D-SC voted no
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA voted no
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI voted no
- Gilbert Motier Woodward D-WI voted no
- Nathan Goff R-WV voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Pleasant Britton Tully D-CA
- Hugh Buchanan D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- Thomas Hardeman Jr. D-GA
- Luman Hamlin Weller O-IA
- William Henry Mills Pusey D-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- William Eastin English D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Wood D-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- Julius Houseman D-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- Alexander Graves D-MO
- John Cosgrove D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Clement Dowd D-NC
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- George Leroy Converse D-OH
- Jonathan Hasson Wallace D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- John Denniston Patton D-PA
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- John Bratton D-SC
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Richard Warner D-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- James Henry Jones D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- James Herbert Budd D-CA
- Charles Allen Sumner D-CA
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- James Wilson R-IA
- Hiram Ypsilanti Smith R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- George Royal Davis R-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- William Augustus Russell R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- Elza Jeffords R-MS
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- Thomas Merrill Ferrell D-NJ
- John Kean R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- William Dorsheimer D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- John Hardy D-NY
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- Edward Wemple D-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne 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
- William David Hill D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA
- George Adams Post D-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Sergeant Wise O-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Gilbert Motier Woodward D-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- George Henry Craig R-AL
- Thomas Williams D-AL
- Goldsmith Whitehouse Hewitt D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Luke Pryor D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- James Kimbrough Jones D-AR
- William Starke Rosecrans D-CA
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- John Raglan Glascock D-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- John Calhoun Nicholls D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- John Frederick Finerty O-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- William Cullen R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Stanton Judkins Peelle R-IN
- John Edward Lamb D-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward 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
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Oscar Turner O-KY
- James Franklin Clay D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY
- William Wirt Culbertson R-KY
- Carleton Hunt D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Edward Taylor Lewis D-LA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- Theodore Lyman O-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- George Washington Covington D-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD
- Hart Benton Holton R-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Edward Samuel Lacey R-MI
- George Lewis Yaple D-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI
- Herschel Harrison Hatch R-MI
- Edward Breitung R-MI
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- James Overton Broadhead D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Robert Washington Fyan D-MO
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- James Ronald Chalmers I-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
- Tyre York O-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- Ossian Ray R-NH
- John Hart Brewer R-NJ
- Benjamin Franklin Howey R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- William Henry Frederick Fiedler D-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- George Washington Ray R-NY
- Charles Rufus Skinner R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- William Findlay Rogers D-NY
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- Robert Maynard Murray D-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney 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
- Alphonso Hart R-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- David Raymond Paige D-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Melvin Clark George R-OR
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Daniel Ward Connolly D-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm O-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- William Addison Duncan D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Samuel Myron Brainerd R-PA
- Mortimer Fitzland Elliott D-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey R-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Thomas Peck Ochiltree I-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
- Robert Murphy Mayo O-VA
- Harry Libbey O-VA
- Benjamin Stephen Hooper O-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- Henry Bowen O-VA
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
- John Winans D-WI
- Daniel Hadley Sumner D-WI
- Burr W. Jones D-WI
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
Other votes
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