House roll call 466 · 51st Congress · Jan 6, 1891
To amend the motion that the house go into the comm. Of the whole to consider S. 3738, (26 stat 830, mar. 3, 1891) placing the american merchant marine engaged
On Jan 6, 1891, the House voted 96–101 (S 3738). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 10–93, Democrats 85–8, Others 1–0. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 18 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
- 96
- No
- 101
- Did not vote
- 153
- Date
- Jan 6, 1891
By party
- Democrats85 yes · 8 no · 74 didn’t vote
- Republicans10 yes · 93 no · 79 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Marion Biggs D-CA voted no
- John Fletcher Lacey R-IA voted yes
- Charles Augustus Hill R-IL voted yes
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN voted yes
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS voted yes
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS voted yes
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS voted yes
- John Forrester Andrew D-MA voted no
- James O'Donnell R-MI voted yes
- John Lind R-MN voted yes
- John Steele Henderson D-NC voted no
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer D-NJ voted no
- Edward John Dunphy D-NY voted no
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY voted no
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY voted no
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY voted no
- John Alfred Pickler R-SD voted yes
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Lewis Porter Featherstone O-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- John Henry Rogers D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Thomas J. Geary D-CA
- Thomas Jefferson Clunie D-CA
- John Brown Penington D-DE
- Robert Hamilton McWhorta Davidson D-FL
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester D-GA
- 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
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- John Fletcher Lacey R-IA
- Charles Augustus Hill R-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- George Washington Fithian D-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- James Robert Williams D-IL
- William Fletcher Parrett D-IN
- Jason Brevoort Brown D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- George William Cooper D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire D-IN
- Joseph Bonaparte Cheadle R-IN
- Augustus Newton Martin D-IN
- Charles A. O. Mcclellan D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Bishop Walden Perkins R-KS
- John Alexander Anderson R-KS
- William Thomas Ellis D-KY
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Charles Jahleal Boatner D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Charles Hopper Gibson D-MD
- Herman Stump D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- John Lind R-MN
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson D-MO
- John Charles Tarsney D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- Robert Henry Whitelaw D-MO
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Clarke Lewis D-MS
- Thomas Gregory Skinner D-NC
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- Samuel S. Yoder D-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- James W. Owens D-OH
- Richard Vaux D-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- David B. Brunner D-PA
- Levi Maish D-PA
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- John Alfred Pickler R-SD
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce 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
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- Posey Green Lester D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- William Henry Fitzhugh Lee D-VA
- John Alexander Buchanan D-VA
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
- Charles Barwig D-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- George H. Brickner D-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- John Van Mcduffie R-AL
- Marion Biggs D-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- William W. Morrow R-CA
- William Vandever R-CA
- Hosea Townsend R-CO
- William Edgar Simonds R-CT
- Frederick Miles R-CT
- Daniel Kerr R-IA
- Edward Retilla Hays R-IA
- James Patton Flick R-IA
- Joseph Rea Reed R-IA
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- William Harrison Gest R-IL
- Jonathan Harvey Rowell R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- William Dale Owen R-IN
- Harrison Kelley R-KS
- Erastus Johnson Turner R-KS
- John Henry Wilson R-KY
- Elijah Adams Morse R-MA
- John Forrester Andrew D-MA
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks R-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- Joseph Henry Walker R-MA
- Henry Stockbridge Jr. R-MD
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Louis Emory Mccomas R-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- Edward Payson Allen R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Charles Eugene Belknap R-MI
- Byron M. Cutcheon R-MI
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson R-MI
- Mark Hill Dunnell R-MN
- Solomon Gilman Comstock R-MN
- William Medcalf Kinsey R-MO
- Thomas Henry Carter R-MT
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- William James Connell R-NE
- Gilbert Lafayette Laws R-NE
- Orren Cheney Moore R-NH
- Christopher Augustus Bergen R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer D-NJ
- Charles Dyer Beckwith R-NJ
- Herman Lehlbach R-NJ
- William Copeland Wallace R-NY
- Edward John Dunphy D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Francis Barretto Spinola D-NY
- Roswell Pettibone Flower D-NY
- Moses Dunning Stivers R-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- John Henry Moffitt R-NY
- Frederick Lansing R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Charles Simeon Baker R-NY
- John Gilbert Sawyer R-NY
- John McCreath Farquhar R-NY
- William Grant Laidlaw R-NY
- Benjamin Butterworth R-OH
- John Alexander Caldwell R-OH
- Elihu Stephen Williams R-OH
- Henry Lee Morey R-OH
- Robert Patterson Kennedy R-OH
- Albert Clifton Thompson R-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- William Mckinley Jr. R-OH
- Martin Luther Smyser R-OH
- Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Robert Morris Yardley R-PA
- Marriott Brosius R-PA
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne R-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Edward Scull R-PA
- Samuel Alfred Craig R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Joseph Warren Ray R-PA
- Charles Champlain Townsend R-PA
- William Constantine Culbertson R-PA
- Charles Warren Stone R-PA
- Henry Clay Evans R-TN
- John Mercer Langston R-VA
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Lucien Bonaparte Caswell R-WI
- Charles Benjamin Clark R-WI
- Ormsby Brunson Thomas R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- George Wesley Atkinson R-WV
- Charles Brooks Smith R-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
Did not vote
- Richard Henry Clarke D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Louis Washington Turpin D-AL
- William Henderson Cate D-AR
- John Jefferson De Haven R-CA
- Washington Frederick Willcox D-CT
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- Robert Bullock D-FL
- John David Stewart D-GA
- Henry Hull Carlton D-GA
- Allen Daniel Candler D-GA
- George Thomas Barnes D-GA
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Joseph Henry Sweney R-IA
- Edwin Hurd Conger R-IA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- Isaac S. Struble R-IA
- Willis Sweet R-ID
- Abner Taylor R-IL
- Frank Lawler D-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- George Everett Adams R-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Lewis Edwin Payson R-IL
- William St. John Forman D-IL
- George Washington Smith R-IL
- John Henry O'Neall D-IN
- Thomas McLelland Browne R-IN
- Edmund Needham Morrill R-KS
- Samuel Ritter Peters R-KS
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight D-KY
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- John Griffin Carlisle D-KY
- W. W. (William Worth) Dickerson D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- Hugh Franklin Finley R-KY
- Theodore Stark Wilkinson D-LA
- Hamilton Dudley Coleman R-LA
- Andrew Price D-LA
- Charles Sturtevant Randall R-MA
- Joseph Henry O'Neil D-MA
- Frederic Thomas Greenhalge R-MA
- John Wilson Candler R-MA
- Rodney Wallace R-MA
- Francis Williams Rockwell R-MA
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Mark Spencer Brewer R-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Aaron Thomas Bliss R-MI
- Frank Willis Wheeler R-MI
- Darwin Scott Hall R-MN
- Samuel Prather Snider R-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Richard Henry Norton D-MO
- Frederick Gottlieb Niedringhaus R-MO
- Nathan Frank R-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- William Henry Wade R-MO
- James Peter Walker D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- James Bright Morgan D-MS
- Chapman Levy Anderson D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Henry Plummer Cheatham R-NC
- Charles Washington Mcclammy D-NC
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn D-NC
- John Morehead Brower R-NC
- Alfred Rowland D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- Hamilton Glover Ewart R-NC
- Henry Clay Hansbrough R-ND
- James Laird R-NE
- George Washington Emery Dorsey R-NE
- Alonzo Nute R-NH
- Samuel Fowler D-NJ
- William Mcadoo D-NJ
- Horace Franklin Bartine R-NV
- James Way Covert D-NY
- Felix Campbell D-NY
- John Michael Clancy D-NY
- Thomas Francis Magner D-NY
- Charles Henry Turner D-NY
- Frank Thomas Fitzgerald D-NY
- John Henry Mccarthy D-NY
- John Quinn D-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- Charles Junius Knapp R-NY
- John Adam Quackenbush R-NY
- John Sanford R-NY
- David Wilber R-NY
- John Sigsbee Pindar D-NY
- Milton De Lano R-NY
- Thomas Schmeck Flood R-NY
- John Raines R-NY
- John McClure Wiley D-NY
- George Ebbert Seney D-OH
- Melvin Morella Boothman R-OH
- William Craig Cooper R-OH
- William Elisha Haynes D-OH
- Jacob Joseph Pugsley R-OH
- Charles Preston Wickham R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Samuel Jackson Randall D-PA
- John Edgar Reyburn R-PA
- William Darrah Kelley R-PA
- Smedley Darlington R-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Winebrenner Rife R-PA
- Myron Benjamin Wright R-PA
- Henry Clay Mccormick R-PA
- Charles Rollin Buckalew D-PA
- Thomas McKee Bayne R-PA
- Lewis Findlay Watson R-PA
- James Kerr D-PA
- Henry Joshua Spooner R-RI
- Warren Otis Arnold R-RI
- Samuel Dibble D-SC
- James Sproull Cothran D-SC
- William Hayne Perry D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- George William Dargan D-SC
- Thomas Ezekiel Miller R-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- Oscar Sherman Gifford R-SD
- Alfred Alexander Taylor R-TN
- Leonidas Campbell Houk R-TN
- Washington Curran Whitthorne D-TN
- James Phelan D-TN
- Thomas Henry Bayly Browne R-VA
- George Edwin Bowden R-VA
- Edmund Waddill Jr. R-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Edward Carrington Venable D-VA
- Paul Carrington Edmunds D-VA
- John Wolcott Stewart R-VT
- John Lockwood Wilson R-WA
- Isaac Whitbeck Van Schaick R-WI
- Myron Hawley Mccord R-WI
- John Overton Pendleton D-WV
- John Duffy Alderson D-WV
- James Monroe Jackson D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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