House roll call 126 · 52nd Congress · Jun 13, 1892
To pass H.R. 8579, providing to incorporate the petworth, brightwood and tokoma railroad company of the district of columbia. (p.5252-2)
On Jun 13, 1892, the House voted 155–15 (HR 8579). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 121–11, Republicans 32–2, Others 2–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 13 members voted against their own party.
During the 52nd Congress (1891–1892), Benjamin Harrison was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.
- Yes
- 155
- No
- 15
- Did not vote
- 170
- Date
- Jun 13, 1892
By party
- Democrats121 yes · 11 no · 111 didn’t vote
- Republicans32 yes · 2 no · 55 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 2 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR voted no
- William Leake Terry D-AR voted no
- John Joseph Seerley D-IA voted no
- Walter Halben Butler D-IA voted no
- Frederick Edward White D-IA voted no
- Owen Scott D-IL voted no
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY voted no
- John Lind R-MN voted no
- Henry Bacon D-NY voted no
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY voted no
- George Washington Shell D-SC voted no
- Eli Thomas Stackhouse D-SC voted no
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- William Henry Forney D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- William Henderson Cate D-AR
- Anthony Caminetti D-CA
- Eugene Francis Loud R-CA
- Lewis Sperry D-CT
- Washington Frederick Willcox D-CT
- Robert Elliott De Forest D-CT
- John Williams Causey D-DE
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- Robert Bullock D-FL
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Charles Leavell Moses D-GA
- Leonidas Felix Livingston D-GA
- James Henderson Blount D-GA
- Robert William Everett D-GA
- Thomas Graves Lawson D-GA
- Thomas Elisha Winn D-GA
- Thomas Edward Watson D-GA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Thomas Bowman D-IA
- George Douglas Perkins R-IA
- Abner Taylor R-IL
- Lawrence Edward Mcgann D-IL
- Allan Cathcart Durborow Jr. D-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Lewis Steward D-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- Scott Wike D-IL
- Samuel Thompson Busey D-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- James Robert Williams D-IL
- George Washington Smith R-IL
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire D-IN
- Daniel Webster Waugh R-IN
- Augustus Newton Martin D-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- Case Broderick R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- William Thomas Ellis D-KY
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- W. W. (William Worth) Dickerson D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Matthew Diamond Lagan D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Joseph Henry O'Neil D-MA
- Joseph Henry Walker R-MA
- Frederick Spaulding Coolidge D-MA
- John Crawford Crosby D-MA
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- James Sedgwick Gorman D-MI
- Byron Gray Stout D-MI
- Henry Melville Youmans D-MI
- Harrison H. Wheeler D-MI
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson R-MI
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- John Charles Tarsney D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- Seth Wallace Cobb D-MO
- Samuel Byrns D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- David Albaugh De Armond D-MO
- Marshall Arnold D-MO
- John Curtis Kyle D-MS
- Clarke Lewis D-MS
- Joseph Henry Beeman D-MS
- William Wirt Dixon D-MT
- Benjamin Franklin Grady D-NC
- Archibald Hunter Arrington Williams D-NC
- Sydenham Benoni Alexander D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- William Henry Harrison Cowles D-NC
- William Jennings Bryan D-NE
- William Arthur Mckeighan O-NE
- Omer Madison Kem O-NE
- Luther Franklin Mckinney D-NH
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer D-NJ
- Samuel Fowler D-NJ
- Thomas Dunn English D-NJ
- John Michael Clancy D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Joseph James Little D-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- Newton Martin Curtis R-NY
- George Van Horn D-NY
- George Washington Ray R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Halbert Stevens Greenleaf D-NY
- Thomas Lathrop Bunting D-NY
- George Washington Houk D-OH
- Robert Eachus Doan R-OH
- William Henry Enochs R-OH
- Ezra Booth Taylor R-OH
- Tom Loftin Johnson D-OH
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- Edwin Hallowell D-PA
- Lemuel Amerman D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- John Winebrenner Rife R-PA
- Myron Benjamin Wright R-PA
- Albert Cole Hopkins R-PA
- Simon Peter Wolverton D-PA
- Louis Evans Atkinson R-PA
- Edward Scull R-PA
- William Alexis Stone R-PA
- Charles Warren Stone R-PA
- George Frederic Kribbs D-PA
- Charles Harrison Page D-RI
- George Dionysius Tillman D-SC
- George Johnstone D-SC
- John James Hemphill D-SC
- William Elliott D-SC
- John Lawlor Jolley R-SD
- Henry Clay Snodgrass D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Nicholas Nichols Cox D-TN
- Rice Alexander Pierce D-TN
- Josiah Patterson D-TN
- Charles Stewart D-TX
- John Benjamin Long D-TX
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Joseph Weldon Bailey D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- Littleton Wilde Moore D-TX
- Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham D-TX
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- James Fletcher Epes D-VA
- Paul Carrington Edmunds D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- John Alexander Buchanan D-VA
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- Clinton Babbitt D-WI
- Allen Ralph Bushnell D-WI
- John Lendrum Mitchell D-WI
- George H. Brickner D-WI
- Lucas Miltiades Miller D-WI
- Frank Potter Coburn D-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- Thomas Lynch D-WI
- John Overton Pendleton D-WV
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- John Duffy Alderson D-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- William Leake Terry D-AR
- John Joseph Seerley D-IA
- Walter Halben Butler D-IA
- Frederick Edward White D-IA
- Owen Scott D-IL
- John Grant Otis O-KS
- William Baker O-KS
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- John Lind R-MN
- Henry Bacon D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- George Washington Shell D-SC
- Eli Thomas Stackhouse D-SC
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
Did not vote
- Richard Henry Clarke D-AL
- Hilary Abner Herbert D-AL
- Louis Washington Turpin D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Samuel West Peel D-AR
- Thomas J. Geary D-CA
- Joseph Mckenna R-CA
- Samuel Greeley Hilborn R-CA
- John Tyler Cutting R-CA
- William Wallace Bowers R-CA
- Hosea Townsend R-CO
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester D-GA
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- John Taylor Hamilton D-IA
- John Albert Tiffin Hull R-IA
- James Patton Flick R-IA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- Willis Sweet R-ID
- Walter Cass Newberry D-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Herman Wilber Snow D-IL
- Benjamin Taylor Cable D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- George Washington Fithian D-IL
- William St. John Forman D-IL
- William Fletcher Parrett D-IN
- John Lewis Bretz D-IN
- Jason Brevoort Brown D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- George William Cooper D-IN
- Henry Underwood Johnson R-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- David Henry Patton D-IN
- Charles A. O. Mcclellan D-IN
- Benjamin Hutchinson Clover O-KS
- John Davis O-KS
- Jeremiah (Jerry) Simpson O-KS
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight D-KY
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY
- John Wilkerson Kendall D-KY
- Joseph Morgan Kendall D-KY
- John Henry Wilson R-KY
- Adolph Meyer D-LA
- Andrew Price D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Charles Jahleal Boatner D-LA
- Charles Sturtevant Randall R-MA
- Elijah Adams Morse R-MA
- John Forrester Andrew D-MA
- Sherman Hoar D-MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- Moses Tyler Stevens D-MA
- George Fred Williams D-MA
- Henry Page D-MD
- John Brewer Brown D-MD
- Herman Stump D-MD
- Isidor Rayner D-MD
- William McMahon Mckaig D-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- James O'Donnell R-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Charles Eugene Belknap R-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Thomas Addis Emmet Weadock D-MI
- William Henry Harries D-MN
- Osee Matson Hall D-MN
- James Nathan Castle D-MN
- Kittel Halvorson O-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Charles Harley Mansur D-MO
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson D-MO
- Richard Henry Norton D-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- Robert Washington Fyan D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- William Augustus Blount Branch D-NC
- Henry Plummer Cheatham R-NC
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn D-NC
- William Thomas Crawford D-NC
- Martin Nelson Johnson R-ND
- Warren Fisher Daniell D-NH
- Christopher Augustus Bergen R-NJ
- James Buchanan R-NJ
- Cornelius Andrew Cadmus D-NJ
- Edward Francis Mcdonald D-NJ
- Horace Franklin Bartine R-NV
- Alfred Clark Chapin D-NY
- James Way Covert D-NY
- William Jerome Coombs D-NY
- Thomas Francis Magner D-NY
- John R. Fellows D-NY
- Edward John Dunphy D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- William Bourke Cockran D-NY
- John De Witt Warner D-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch D-NY
- William Griggs Stahlnecker D-NY
- John Henry Ketcham R-NY
- Isaac Newton Cox D-NY
- John Adam Quackenbush R-NY
- John Sanford R-NY
- John Madison Wever R-NY
- Henry Wilbur Bentley D-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Hosea Hunt Rockwell D-NY
- John Raines R-NY
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY
- Warren Brewster Hooker R-NY
- Bellamy Storer R-OH
- John Alexander Caldwell R-OH
- Martin Kissinger Gantz D-OH
- Fernando Coello Layton D-OH
- Dennis D. Donovan D-OH
- William Elisha Haynes D-OH
- Darius Dodge Hare D-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- John M. Pattison D-OH
- James Irvine Dungan D-OH
- James W. Owens D-OH
- Michael Daniel Harter D-OH
- John George Warwick D-OH
- Lewis Philip Ohliger D-OH
- Albert Jackson Pearson D-OH
- Joseph Danner Taylor R-OH
- Vincent Albert Taylor R-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- William Mcaleer D-PA
- John Edgar Reyburn R-PA
- John Buchanan Robinson R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- David B. Brunner D-PA
- Marriott Brosius R-PA
- George Washington Shonk R-PA
- Frank Eckels Beltzhoover D-PA
- George Franklin Huff R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- Alexander Kerr Craig D-PA
- Andrew Stewart R-PA
- William Allen Sipe D-PA
- Eugene Pierce Gillespie D-PA
- Matthew Griswold R-PA
- Oscar Lapham D-RI
- William Huggins Brawley D-SC
- John Lowndes Mclaurin D-SC
- John Alfred Pickler R-SD
- Alfred Alexander Taylor R-TN
- John Chiles Houk R-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Edwin Le Roy Antony D-TX
- Roger Quarles Mills D-TX
- John William Lawson D-VA
- Posey Green Lester D-VA
- Elisha Edward Meredith D-VA
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
- Horace Henry Powers R-VT
- John Lockwood Wilson R-WA
- Charles Barwig D-WI
- James Capehart D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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