House roll call 55 · 50th Congress · Mar 20, 1888
To table the motion to reconsider the vote by which the previous question was ordered on the house resolution setting apart time for discussion of labor matters
On Mar 20, 1888, the House voted 225–18. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 103–18, Republicans 117–0, Others 5–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 18 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
- 225
- No
- 18
- Did not vote
- 85
- Date
- Mar 20, 1888
By party
- Democrats103 yes · 18 no · 47 didn’t vote
- Republicans117 yes · 0 no · 37 didn’t vote
- Others5 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- William Calvin Oates D-AL voted no
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR voted no
- John Henry Rogers D-AR voted no
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA voted no
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA voted no
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN voted no
- William Johnson Stone D-KY voted no
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY voted no
- James Peter Walker D-MO voted no
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA voted no
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA voted no
- John James Hemphill D-SC voted no
- George William Dargan D-SC voted no
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN voted no
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN voted no
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN voted no
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX voted no
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Poindexter Dunn D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- Charles Norton Felton R-CA
- William Vandever 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
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Thomas Manson Norwood D-GA
- Thomas Wingfield Grimes D-GA
- Judson Claudius Clements D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- William Elijah Fuller R-IA
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- James Baird Weaver O-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Albert Raney Anderson O-IA
- Joseph Lyman R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Ralph Plumb R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- George Alburtus Anderson D-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Silas Zephaniah Landes D-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- Jehu Baker R-IL
- Alvin Peterson Hovey R-IN
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- Courtland Cushing Matson D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- James Thomas Johnston R-IN
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- George Washington Steele R-IN
- James Bain White R-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-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
- Polk Laffoon D-KY
- Whiteside Godfrey Hunter R-KY
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- George Morgan Thomas R-KY
- William Preston Taulbee D-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Cherubusco Newton D-LA
- Robert Thompson Davis R-MA
- John Davis Long R-MA
- Leopold Morse D-MA
- Patrick Andrew Collins D-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- Charles Herbert Allen R-MA
- Edward Burnett D-MA
- John Edwards Russell D-MA
- William Whiting R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Frank Thomas Shaw D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Isidor Rayner D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Edward Payson Allen R-MI
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Melbourne Haddock Ford D-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Timothy Edward Tarsney D-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Spencer Oliver Fisher D-MI
- Henry William Seymour R-MI
- Thomas Wilson D-MN
- John Lind R-MN
- John Lewis Macdonald D-MN
- Edmund Rice D-MN
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- William Warner R-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- John Edward Hutton D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- Frederick George Barry D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Louis Charles Latham D-NC
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- Thomas Dillard Johnston D-NC
- John Albert Mcshane D-NE
- 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
- James Nelson Pidcock D-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- Stephen Van Culen White R-NY
- Archibald Meserole Bliss D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Lloyd Stephens Bryce D-NY
- Samuel Sullivan Cox D-NY
- Truman Adams Merriman D-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch R-NY
- Stephen Tyng Hopkins R-NY
- Edward Whitford Greenman D-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- John Henry Moffitt R-NY
- Abraham X. Parker R-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Milton De Lano R-NY
- Newton Wright Nutting R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- John Baptiste Weber 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
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- George Washington Crouse R-OH
- Martin Ambrose Foran D-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- Daniel Ermentrout D-PA
- John Andrew Hiestand R-PA
- William Henry Sowden D-PA
- John Lynch 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
- John Patton R-PA
- Welty Mccullogh R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Oscar Lawrence Jackson R-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
- John Randolph Neal D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- Presley Thornton Glass D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- William Harrison Martin D-TX
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Silas Hare D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne 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
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Henry Smith O-WI
- Thomas Richard Hudd D-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- Charles Philip Snyder D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
Did not vote
- James Taylor Jones D-AL
- Alexander Caldwell Davidson D-AL
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Thomas Larkin Thompson D-CA
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Charles Dougherty D-FL
- John David Stewart D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- Adoniram Judson Holmes R-IA
- Ransom Williams Dunham R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- Richard Wellington Townshend D-IL
- John Robert Thomas R-IL
- Francis Blackburn Posey R-IN
- Jonas George Howard D-IN
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Matthew Diamond Lagan D-LA
- Edward James Gay D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Edward Daniel Hayden R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Seth Crittenden Moffatt R-MI
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- James Nelson Burnes D-MO
- John Milton Glover D-MO
- Martin Linn Clardy D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- John Nichols I-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- James Laird R-NE
- William Walter Phelps R-NJ
- William Woodburn R-NV
- Perry Belmont D-NY
- Peter Paul Mahoney D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- William Bourke Cockran D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- George West R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- Ira Davenport R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Beriah Wilkins D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- James Thompson Maffett R-PA
- Norman Hall D-PA
- William Lawrence Scott D-PA
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- Roderick Randum Butler R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Jacob Yost R-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- Richard William Guenther R-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Nathan Goff R-WV
- Charles Edgar Hogg D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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