House roll call 317 · 50th Congress · Mar 2, 1889
To recede from the disagreement to Senate amendments 141, 142 to bill H. R. 12008, which amendments relate to increasing the limit on the cost of the library of
On Mar 2, 1889, the House voted 178–56 (HR 12008). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 115–3, Democrats 61–53, Others 2–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 56 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
- 178
- No
- 56
- Did not vote
- 93
- Date
- Mar 2, 1889
By party
- Democrats61 yes · 53 no · 54 didn’t vote
- Republicans115 yes · 3 no · 36 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 1 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL voted no
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL voted no
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR voted no
- John Henry Rogers D-AR voted no
- Samuel West Peel D-AR voted no
- John Brown Penington D-DE voted no
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA voted no
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA voted no
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA voted no
- James Henderson Blount D-GA voted no
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA voted no
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA voted no
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA voted no
- Daniel Kerr R-IA voted no
- George Alburtus Anderson D-IL voted no
- William McKendree Springer D-IL voted no
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL voted no
- Jehu Baker R-IL voted no
- William Steele Holman D-IN voted no
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN voted no
- William Johnson Stone D-KY voted no
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY voted no
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY voted no
- Matthew Diamond Lagan D-LA voted no
- Cherubusco Newton D-LA voted no
- Barnes Compton D-MD voted no
- Edward Payson Allen R-MI voted no
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI voted no
- Thomas Wilson D-MN voted no
- John Lewis Macdonald D-MN voted no
- William Henry Hatch D-MO voted no
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO voted no
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO voted no
- James Bright Morgan D-MS voted no
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC voted no
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC voted no
- Alfred Rowland D-NC voted no
- John Steele Henderson D-NC voted no
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC voted no
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC voted no
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ voted no
- William Mcadoo D-NJ voted no
- Felix Campbell D-NY voted no
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH voted no
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA voted no
- John Lynch D-PA voted no
- Norman Hall D-PA voted no
- William Hayne Perry D-SC voted no
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN voted no
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN voted no
- William Harrison Martin D-TX voted no
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX voted no
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX voted no
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX voted no
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA voted no
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Thomas Larkin Thompson D-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Albert Raney Anderson O-IA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Francis Blackburn Posey R-IN
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- Jonas George Howard 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
- John Alexander Anderson O-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- Whiteside Godfrey Hunter R-KY
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- George Morgan Thomas R-KY
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- John Edwards Russell D-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Melbourne Haddock Ford D-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- Henry William Seymour R-MI
- John Lind R-MN
- Edmund Rice D-MN
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- William Warner R-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Luther Franklin Mckinney D-NH
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- George Hires R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- John Kean R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Stephen Van Culen White R-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Stephen Tyng Hopkins R-NY
- Edward Whitford Greenman D-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- George West R-NY
- John Henry Moffitt R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Milton De Lano 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
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- Elihu Stephen Williams R-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
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- George Washington Crouse R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA
- Franklin Bound R-PA
- Frank Charles Bunnell R-PA
- Henry Clay Mccormick R-PA
- Edward Scull R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- John Patton R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- William Embre Gaines R-VA
- John Robert Brown R-VA
- Henry Bowen R-VA
- Jacob Yost R-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- 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
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- George Alburtus Anderson D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- Jehu Baker R-IL
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Matthew Diamond Lagan D-LA
- Cherubusco Newton D-LA
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Edward Payson Allen R-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Thomas Wilson D-MN
- John Lewis Macdonald D-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- John Lynch D-PA
- Norman Hall D-PA
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- George Gifford Symes R-CO
- Robert Johnstone Vance D-CT
- Carlos French D-CT
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- Miles Tobey Granger D-CT
- John David Stewart D-GA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- Joseph Lyman R-IA
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- Alvin Peterson Hovey R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- Edward Burnett D-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Isidor Rayner D-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Louis Charles Latham D-NC
- John Nichols I-NC
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- John Albert Mcshane D-NE
- James Laird R-NE
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- Lloyd Stephens Bryce 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
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- John Baptiste Weber R-NY
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
- Charles Elwood Brown R-OH
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- Welty Mccullogh R-PA
- James Thompson Maffett R-PA
- George William Dargan D-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- Silas Hare D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Samuel Isaac Hopkins O-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Henry Smith O-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Edgar Hogg D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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