House roll call 108 · 50th Congress · Apr 9, 1888
To adjourn, motion made during consideration of S. 139. (p. 2812-1)
On Apr 9, 1888, the House voted 80–151. Result: failed. By party: Republicans 0–116, Democrats 78–32, Others 2–2, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 32 members voted against their own party.
During the 50th Congress (1887–1888), Grover Cleveland was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 80
- No
- 151
- Did not vote
- 97
- Date
- Apr 9, 1888
By party
- Democrats78 yes · 32 no · 58 didn’t vote
- Republicans0 yes · 116 no · 38 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 2 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Marion Biggs D-CA voted no
- William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN voted no
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY voted no
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY voted no
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY voted no
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY voted no
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA voted no
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD voted no
- Isidor Rayner D-MD voted no
- Barnes Compton D-MD voted no
- John Lewis Macdonald D-MN voted no
- John Milton Glover D-MO voted no
- Louis Charles Latham D-NC voted no
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ voted no
- Felix Campbell D-NY voted no
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY voted no
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY voted no
- Edward Whitford Greenman D-NY voted no
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH voted no
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH voted no
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA voted no
- William Henry Sowden D-PA voted no
- Norman Hall D-PA voted no
- Samuel Dibble D-SC voted no
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC voted no
- John James Hemphill D-SC voted no
- William Elliott D-SC voted no
- David Browning Culberson D-TX voted no
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA voted no
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA voted no
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- George Alburtus Anderson D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- Matthew Diamond Lagan D-LA
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- John Edwards Russell D-MA
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- John Albert Mcshane D-NE
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Lloyd Stephens Bryce D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- Silas Hare D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Henry Smith O-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Albert Raney Anderson O-IA
- Joseph Lyman R-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Jehu Baker R-IL
- Alvin Peterson Hovey R-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- James Thomas Johnston R-IN
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- James Bain White R-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- Thomas Ryan R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Whiteside Godfrey Hunter R-KY
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- George Morgan Thomas R-KY
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Isidor Rayner D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Edward Payson Allen R-MI
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Henry William Seymour R-MI
- John Lind R-MN
- John Lewis Macdonald D-MN
- William Warner R-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- Louis Charles Latham D-NC
- John Nichols I-NC
- James Laird R-NE
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- John Kean R-NJ
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Stephen Tyng Hopkins R-NY
- Edward Whitford Greenman D-NY
- George West R-NY
- John Henry Moffitt R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- Milton De Lano R-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood R-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- John Baptiste Weber R-NY
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- Elihu Stephen Williams R-OH
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- Melvin Morella Boothman R-OH
- James Edwin Campbell D-OH
- Robert Patterson Kennedy R-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- Jacob Romeis R-OH
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley R-OH
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- George Washington Crouse R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- Franklin Bound R-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- Henry Clay Mccormick R-PA
- Edward Scull R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- John Patton R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Norman Hall D-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- William Embre Gaines R-VA
- John Robert Brown R-VA
- Samuel Isaac Hopkins O-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- Henry Bowen R-VA
- Jacob Yost R-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Thomas Larkin Thompson D-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- Robert Johnstone Vance D-CT
- Carlos French D-CT
- Miles Tobey Granger D-CT
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- John David Stewart D-GA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Francis Blackburn Posey R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- John Alexander Anderson O-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Cherubusco Newton D-LA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- Edward Burnett D-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Melbourne Haddock Ford D-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- Thomas Wilson D-MN
- Edmund Rice D-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Luther Franklin Mckinney D-NH
- George Hires R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Stephen Van Culen White R-NY
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman D-NY
- William Bourke Cockran D-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- John Lynch D-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA
- Welty Mccullogh R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- James Thompson Maffett R-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- Charles Edgar Hogg D-WV
Other votes
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