To order the previous question on H.R. 3538. (p. 7068-2)

On Jul 9, 1890, the House voted 108–67 (HR 3538). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 100–4, Democrats 7–63, Others 1–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 11 members voted against their own party.

During the 51st Congress (1889–1890), Benjamin Harrison was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 108
No: 67
Did not vote: 175
Date: Jul 9, 1890

By party

Democrats7 yes · 63 no · 97 didn’t vote
Republicans100 yes · 4 no · 78 didn’t vote
Others1 yes · 0 no

Who broke with their party

William Calvin Oates D-AL voted yes
Joseph Wheeler D-AL voted yes
Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL voted no
William Dallas Bynum D-IN voted yes
Harrison Kelley R-KS voted no
John Alexander Anderson R-KS voted no
William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY voted yes
Samuel S. Yoder D-OH voted yes
James W. Owens D-OH voted yes
John Edgar Reyburn R-PA voted no
Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

William Calvin Oates D-AL
John Van Mcduffie R-AL
Joseph Wheeler D-AL
Lewis Porter Featherstone O-AR
Joseph Mckenna R-CA
William Vandever R-CA
Hosea Townsend R-CO
John Henry Gear R-IA
David Bremner Henderson R-IA
Joseph Henry Sweney R-IA
John Fletcher Lacey R-IA
Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
James Patton Flick R-IA
Joseph Rea Reed R-IA
Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
George Everett Adams R-IL
Robert Roberts Hitt 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
William Dallas Bynum D-IN
Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
William Dale Owen R-IN
Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
John Henry Wilson R-KY
Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
Hamilton Dudley Coleman R-LA
Elijah Adams Morse R-MA
Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
William Cogswell R-MA
Joseph Henry Walker R-MA
Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
Henry Stockbridge Jr. R-MD
Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
Edward Payson Allen R-MI
Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
Charles Eugene Belknap R-MI
Aaron Thomas Bliss R-MI
Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
Samuel Merritt Stephenson R-MI
Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
John Lind R-MN
Samuel Prather Snider R-MN
Solomon Gilman Comstock R-MN
Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus R-MO
Nathan Frank R-MO
William Medcalf Kinsey R-MO
Thomas Henry Carter R-MT
William James Connell R-NE
Gilbert Lafayette Laws R-NE
Christopher Augustus Bergen R-NJ
James Buchanan R-NJ
Charles Dyer Beckwith R-NJ
Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
Horace Franklin Bartine R-NV
William Copeland Wallace R-NY
Moses Dunning Stivers R-NY
John Henry Ketcham R-NY
John Adam Quackenbush R-NY
John Henry Moffitt R-NY
Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
John Alexander Caldwell R-OH
Elihu Stephen Williams R-OH
Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
Henry Lee Morey R-OH
Robert Patterson Kennedy R-OH
William Craig Cooper R-OH
Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
James W. Owens D-OH
Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH
Binger Hermann R-OR
Charles O'Neill R-PA
Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
Marriott Brosius R-PA
Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
Myron Benjamin Wright R-PA
Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
Edward Scull R-PA
Samuel Alfred Craig R-PA
John Dalzell R-PA
Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
Joseph Warren Ray R-PA
Charles Champlain Townsend R-PA
Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
Oscar Sherman Gifford R-SD
Henry Clay Evans R-TN
Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
Edmund Waddill Jr. R-VA
John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
John Lockwood Wilson R-WA
Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
Myron Hawley Mccord R-WI
George Wesley Atkinson R-WV
Charles Brooks Smith R-WV

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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