House roll call 60 · 49th Congress · May 4, 1886
To pass the resolution prroviding that william a. Pirce, sitting member from the 2nd congressional district of r.i., be allowed 30 days from passage of this res
On May 4, 1886, the House voted 117–78. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 115–1, Republicans 0–77, Others 2–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 1 member voted against their own party.
During the 49th Congress (1885–1886), Grover Cleveland was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 117
- No
- 78
- Did not vote
- 138
- Date
- May 4, 1886
By party
- Democrats115 yes · 1 no · 72 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 77 no · 66 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL
- Thomas William Sadler D-AL
- John Mason Martin D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Charles Brown Lore D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Henry Richard Harris D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Seaborn Reese D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Benton Jay Hall D-IA
- Benjamin Todd Frederick D-IA
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- Nicholas Ellsworth Worthington D-IL
- William Henry Neece D-IL
- James Milton Riggs D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- William Ralls Morrison D-IL
- Thomas Reed Cobb D-IN
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Thomas Bayless Ward D-IN
- Robert Lowry D-IN
- George Ford D-IN
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- John Edward Halsell D-KY
- Thomas Austin Robertson D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY
- Frank Lane Wolford D-KY
- Louis St. Martin D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Floyd King D-LA
- Alfred Briggs Irion D-LA
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- William Cotter Maybury D-MI
- Nathaniel Buel Eldredge D-MI
- Edwin Baruch Winans D-MI
- Ezra Child Carleton D-MI
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- William Dawson D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Otho Robards Singleton D-MS
- Henry Smith Van Eaton D-MS
- Ethelbert Barksdale D-MS
- William Ruffin Cox D-NC
- James Wesley Reid D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Robert Stockton Green D-NJ
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Nicholas Muller D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman O-NY
- Abraham Dowdney D-NY
- Egbert Ludoricus Viele D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Lewis Beach D-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- William David Hill D-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- William Wallace Ellsberry D-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- John Augustus Swope D-PA
- Charles Edmund Boyle D-PA
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Andrew Jackson Caldwell D-TN
- John Goff Ballentine D-TN
- John May Taylor D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- John Henninger Reagan D-TX
- James Henry Jones D-TX
- James Francis Miller D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- George Craighead Cabell D-VA
- Connally Findlay Trigg D-VA
- Edward Stuyvesant Bragg D-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Henry Harrison Markham R-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- John Ransom Buck R-CT
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- James Thomas Johnston R-IN
- William Henry Wadsworth R-KY
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Ambrose Arnold Ranney R-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- Milo White R-MN
- John Bachop Gilfillan R-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- William Warner R-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- James Edward O'Hara R-NC
- George Hires R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Darwin Rush James R-NY
- James Girard Lindsley R-NY
- Henry Gordon Burleigh R-NY
- George West R-NY
- Frederick Avery Johnson R-NY
- John Thomas Spriggs D-NY
- Frank Hiscock R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- John Baptiste Weber R-NY
- Walter Loomis Sessions R-NY
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- John Little R-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Isaac Hamilton Taylor R-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- James Bowen Everhart R-PA
- Isaac Newton Evans R-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- Franklin Bound R-PA
- William Wallace Brown R-PA
- George Washington Fleeger R-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Robert Smalls R-SC
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Zachary Taylor R-TN
- James Dennis Brady R-VA
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- William Thompson Price R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Barclay Henley D-CA
- James Alexander Louttit R-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- Charles Le Moyne Mitchell D-CT
- John Turner Wait R-CT
- Edward Woodruff Seymour D-CT
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Nathaniel Job Hammond D-GA
- Jeremiah Henry Murphy D-IA
- Joseph Lyman R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- James Hugh Ward D-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Reuben Ellwood R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- John Rice Eden D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- John Jay Kleiner D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- Lewis Hanback R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Albert Shelby Willis D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Michael Hahn R-LA
- Nathaniel Dick Wallace D-LA
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Henry Bacon Lovering D-MA
- Eben Francis Stone R-MA
- Frederick David Ely R-MA
- William Whitney Rice R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- William Hinson Cole D-MD
- John Van Lear Findlay D-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Charles Carter Comstock D-MI
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- James Beach Wakefield R-MN
- Horace Burton Strait R-MN
- John Blackwell Hale D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Wharton Jackson Green D-NC
- Risden Tyler Bennett D-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- Archibald Jerard Weaver R-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Martin Alonzo Haynes R-NH
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- John Joseph Adams D-NY
- Joseph Pulitzer D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Abram Stevens Hewitt D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- John Swinburne R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- Stephen Columbus Millard R-NY
- John Arnot Jr. D-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- Charles Marley Anderson D-OH
- Benjamin Le Fevre D-OH
- Jacob Romeis R-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- George Washington Geddes D-OH
- Adoniram Judson Warner D-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- John Brutzman Storm D-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- Jacob Miller Campbell R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Andrew Gregg Curtin D-PA
- James Scott Negley R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- Alexander Colwell White R-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- Charles Harrison Page D-RI
- William Almy Pirce R-RI
- David Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Augustus Herman Pettibone R-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- James Webb Throckmorton D-TX
- Olin Wellborn D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Thomas Croxton D-VA
- Harry Libbey R-VA
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Strode Barbour Jr. D-VA
- John Randolph Tucker D-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Joseph Rankin D-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Hugh Hiram Price R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
- Eustace Gibson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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