House roll call 7 · 48th Congress · Jan 15, 1884
To adjourn, in order to delay action on S. 1038 (23 stat, 1/19/1884), a bill making appropriations for continuing improvement of the mississippi river.
On Jan 15, 1884, the House voted 72–185 (S 1038). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 10–149, Republicans 61–28, Others 1–7, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 38 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
- 72
- No
- 185
- Did not vote
- 82
- Date
- Jan 15, 1884
By party
- Democrats10 yes · 149 no · 42 didn’t vote
- Republicans61 yes · 28 no · 35 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 7 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Pleasant Britton Tully D-CA voted yes
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA voted no
- James Wilson R-IA voted no
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA voted no
- George Royal Davis R-IL voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL voted no
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL voted no
- John Robert Thomas R-IL voted no
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA voted no
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA voted no
- William Whitney Rice R-MA voted no
- William Whiting R-MA voted no
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD voted yes
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI voted yes
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI voted no
- Milo White R-MN voted no
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN voted no
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN voted no
- William Drew Washburn R-MN voted no
- Elza Jeffords R-MS voted no
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE voted no
- James Laird R-NE voted no
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV voted yes
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY voted yes
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY voted no
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH voted yes
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH voted yes
- Melvin Clark George R-OR voted no
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA voted no
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI voted no
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC voted yes
- John James Hemphill D-SC voted yes
- George William Dargan D-SC voted yes
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey R-SC voted no
- Richard William Guenther R-WI voted no
- William Thompson Price R-WI voted no
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI voted no
- Nathan Goff R-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Pleasant Britton Tully D-CA
- James Burns Belford R-CO
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. R-FL
- Moses Ayers Mccoid R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- William Cullen R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- William Henry Calkins R-IN
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- William Wirt Culbertson R-KY
- John Daugherty White R-KY
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Fetter Schrier Hoblitzell D-MD
- Hart Benton Holton R-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- Edward Samuel Lacey R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Herschel Harrison Hatch R-MI
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- John Kean R-NJ
- Benjamin Franklin Howey R-NJ
- George Williams Cassidy D-NV
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- George Washington Ray R-NY
- Charles Rufus Skinner R-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- John Watts Mccormick R-OH
- Alphonso Hart R-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- Abraham Herr Smith R-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm O-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Samuel Myron Brainerd R-PA
- Jonathan Chace R-RI
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Luke Potter Poland R-VT
How each representative voted: No
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-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
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- William Starke Rosecrans D-CA
- James Herbert Budd D-CA
- Charles Allen Sumner D-CA
- John Raglan Glascock D-CA
- William Wallace Eaton D-CT
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- John Calhoun Nicholls D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Hugh Buchanan D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- Thomas Hardeman Jr. D-GA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Luman Hamlin Weller O-IA
- James Wilson R-IA
- John Calhoun Cook D-IA
- William Henry Mills Pusey D-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- John Frederick Finerty O-IL
- George Royal Davis R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Aaron Shaw D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Strother Madison Stockslager D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- John Edward Lamb D-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Wood D-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- Oscar Turner O-KY
- James Franklin Clay D-KY
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Carleton Hunt D-LA
- Ezekiel John Ellis D-LA
- William Pitt Kellogg R-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Edward Taylor Lewis D-LA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- George Washington Covington D-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- George Lewis Yaple D-MI
- Julius Houseman D-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- Roswell Gilbert Horr R-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- William Drew Washburn R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Armstead Milton Alexander D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Cosgrove D-MO
- Aylett Hawes Buckner D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- James Overton Broadhead D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- Robert Washington Fyan D-MO
- Henry Lowndes Muldrow D-MS
- Elza Jeffords R-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Henry Smith Van Eaton D-MS
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- Clement Dowd D-NC
- Tyre York O-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- William Henry Frederick Fiedler D-NJ
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- William Dorsheimer D-NY
- John Hardy D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Orlando Brunson Potter D-NY
- John Holroyd Bagley Jr. D-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne D-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- Edward Wemple D-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY
- Robert Smith Stevens D-NY
- William Findlay Rogers D-NY
- Henry Warner Slocum D-NY
- John Fassett Follett D-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- Frank Hunt Hurd D-OH
- George Leroy Converse D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Melvin Clark George R-OR
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Daniel Ward Connolly D-PA
- George Adams Post D-PA
- William Addison Duncan D-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- John Denniston Patton D-PA
- Mortimer Fitzland Elliott D-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey R-SC
- George Gibbs Dibrell D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Richard Warner D-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- Hiram Casey Young D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- James Henry Jones D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- Thomas Peck Ochiltree I-TX
- James Francis Miller D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Harry Libbey O-VA
- Benjamin Stephen Hooper O-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- John Sergeant Wise O-VA
- John Winans D-WI
- Daniel Hadley Sumner D-WI
- Burr W. Jones D-WI
- Peter Victor Deuster D-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Gilbert Motier Woodward D-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
Did not vote
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Charles Miller Shelley D-AL
- George Henry Craig R-AL
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- Hiram Ypsilanti Smith R-IA
- John Adam Kasson R-IA
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Samuel Wheeler Moulton D-IL
- Stanton Judkins Peelle R-IN
- William Eastin English D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively O-IN
- Dudley Chase Haskell R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Philip Burton Thompson Jr. D-KY
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- William Augustus Russell R-MA
- Theodore Lyman O-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- George Dexter Robinson R-MA
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Edward Breitung R-MI
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Alexander Graves D-MO
- Lowndes Henry Davis D-MO
- James Ronald Chalmers I-MS
- Alfred Moore Scales D-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- Robert Brank Vance D-NC
- Edward Kimble Valentine R-NE
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- Ossian Ray R-NH
- Thomas Merrill Ferrell D-NJ
- John Hart Brewer R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- William Erigena Robinson D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- Waldo Hutchins D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Francis Beattie Brewer R-NY
- Isaac M. Jordan D-OH
- Robert Maynard Murray D-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- James Sidney Robinson R-OH
- Jonathan Hasson Wallace D-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- David Raymond Paige D-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Samuel Fleming Barr R-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- James Herron Hopkins D-PA
- George Van Eman Lawrence R-PA
- Nathan Fellows Dixon R-RI
- John Bratton D-SC
- John Hamilton Evins D-SC
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- John Hancock D-TX
- George Tankard Garrison D-VA
- Robert Murphy Mayo O-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- Henry Bowen O-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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