House roll call 134 · 53rd Congress · Feb 21, 1894
To dispense with further proceedings under a call of the house. (JP.187)
On Feb 21, 1894, the House voted 177–21. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 158–9, Republicans 7–11, Others 12–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 16 members voted against their own party.
During the 53rd Congress (1893–1894), Grover Cleveland was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 177
- No
- 21
- Did not vote
- 179
- Date
- Feb 21, 1894
By party
- Democrats158 yes · 9 no · 62 didn’t vote
- Republicans7 yes · 11 no · 116 didn’t vote
- Others12 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Wallace Bowers R-CA voted yes
- John Fletcher Lacey R-IA voted yes
- Willis Sweet R-ID voted yes
- Joseph Henry O'Neil D-MA voted no
- Charles Sampson Hartman R-MT voted yes
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer D-NJ voted no
- Thomas Dunn English D-NJ voted no
- William Jerome Coombs D-NY voted no
- Franklin Bartlett D-NY voted no
- Edward John Dunphy D-NY voted no
- William Bourke Cockran D-NY voted no
- Charles Delemere Haines D-NY voted no
- Charles Tracey D-NY voted no
- George Washington Murray R-SC voted yes
- John Alfred Pickler R-SD voted yes
- William Vincent Lucas R-SD voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Jesse Francis Stallings D-AL
- William Calvin Oates D-AL
- Gaston Ahi Robbins D-AL
- James Edward Cobb D-AL
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- William Henry Denson D-AL
- Joseph Wheeler D-AL
- Louis Washington Turpin D-AL
- Philip Doddridge Mcculloch Jr. D-AR
- Clifton Rodes Breckinridge D-AR
- Thomas Chipman Mcrae D-AR
- William Leake Terry D-AR
- Thomas J. Geary D-CA
- Anthony Caminetti D-CA
- James George Maguire D-CA
- Marion Cannon O-CA
- William Wallace Bowers R-CA
- Lafayette (Lafe) Pence O-CO
- John Calhoun Bell O-CO
- James Protus Pigott D-CT
- Robert Elliott De Forest D-CT
- John Williams Causey D-DE
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- Rufus Ezekiel Lester D-GA
- Benjamin Edward Russell D-GA
- Charles Leavell Moses D-GA
- Leonidas Felix Livingston D-GA
- Thomas Banks Cabaniss D-GA
- John W. Maddox D-GA
- Thomas Graves Lawson D-GA
- Farish Carter Tate D-GA
- James Conquest Cross Black D-GA
- Henry Gray Turner D-GA
- Walter Ingalls Hayes D-IA
- John Fletcher Lacey R-IA
- Willis Sweet R-ID
- Lawrence Edward Mcgann D-IL
- Julius Goldzier D-IL
- John James Mcdannold D-IL
- William McKendree Springer D-IL
- George Washington Fithian D-IL
- Edward Lane D-IL
- William St. John Forman D-IL
- James Robert Williams D-IL
- Andrew Jackson Hunter D-IL
- John Charles Black D-IL
- Arthur Herbert Taylor D-IN
- John Lewis Bretz D-IN
- William Steele Holman D-IN
- George William Cooper D-IN
- William Dallas Bynum D-IN
- Elijah Voorhees Brookshire D-IN
- Thomas Hammond D-IN
- Augustus Newton Martin D-IN
- William Forgy Mcnagny D-IN
- Charles Gerard Conn D-IN
- Thomas Jefferson Hudson O-KS
- John Davis O-KS
- William Baker O-KS
- William Johnson Stone D-KY
- Isaac Herschel Goodnight D-KY
- Alexander Brooks Montgomery D-KY
- Asher Graham Caruth D-KY
- Albert Seaton Berry D-KY
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge D-KY
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY
- Marcus Claiborne Lisle D-KY
- Adolph Meyer D-LA
- Newton Crain Blanchard D-LA
- Samuel Matthews Robertson D-LA
- Michael Joseph Mcettrick O-MA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Harry Welles Rusk D-MD
- Barnes Compton D-MD
- William McMahon Mckaig D-MD
- Levi Thomas Griffin D-MI
- James Sedgwick Gorman D-MI
- George Frederick Richardson D-MI
- Justin Rice Whiting D-MI
- Thomas Addis Emmet Weadock D-MI
- Osee Matson Hall D-MN
- Melvin Riley Baldwin D-MN
- Haldor Erickson Boen O-MN
- William Henry Hatch D-MO
- Uriel Sebree Hall D-MO
- Alexander Monroe Dockery D-MO
- Daniel Dee Burnes D-MO
- David Albaugh De Armond D-MO
- John Taddeus Heard D-MO
- Richard Parks Bland D-MO
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- Seth Wallace Cobb D-MO
- Robert Washington Fyan D-MO
- Marshall Arnold D-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan D-MO
- John Mills Allen D-MS
- John Curtis Kyle D-MS
- Thomas Clendinen Catchings D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- John Sharp Williams D-MS
- Thomas Ringland Stockdale D-MS
- Charles Edward Hooker D-MS
- Charles Sampson Hartman R-MT
- William Augustus Blount Branch D-NC
- Frederick Augustus Woodard D-NC
- Benjamin Franklin Grady D-NC
- Benjamin Hickman Bunn D-NC
- Sydenham Benoni Alexander D-NC
- John Steele Henderson D-NC
- William Horton Bower D-NC
- William Thomas Crawford D-NC
- William Jennings Bryan D-NE
- William Arthur Mckeighan O-NE
- Omer Madison Kem O-NE
- John Thomas Dunn D-NJ
- Francis Griffith Newlands O-NV
- John Michael Clancy D-NY
- Daniel Edgar Sickles D-NY
- Amos Jay Cummings D-NY
- Isidor Straus D-NY
- Fernando Coello Layton D-OH
- Dennis D. Donovan D-OH
- Joseph Hodson Outhwaite D-OH
- Darius Dodge Hare D-OH
- Albert Jackson Pearson D-OH
- William Mcaleer O-PA
- Howard Mutchler D-PA
- Constantine Jacob Erdman D-PA
- James Bernard Reilly D-PA
- Frank Eckels Beltzhoover D-PA
- Joseph Crocker Sibley D-PA
- George Frederic Kribbs D-PA
- Oscar Lapham D-RI
- William Jasper Talbert D-SC
- Asbury Churchwell Latimer D-SC
- George Washington Shell D-SC
- Thomas Jefferson Strait D-SC
- John Lowndes Mclaurin D-SC
- George Washington Murray R-SC
- John Alfred Pickler R-SD
- William Vincent Lucas R-SD
- Henry Clay Snodgrass D-TN
- Benton Mcmillin D-TN
- James Daniel Richardson D-TN
- Nicholas Nichols Cox D-TN
- Benjamin Augustine Enloe D-TN
- James Calvin Mcdearmon D-TN
- Josiah Patterson D-TN
- Samuel Bronson Cooper D-TX
- Constantine Buckley Kilgore D-TX
- David Browning Culberson D-TX
- Joseph Weldon Bailey D-TX
- Joseph (Jo) Abbott D-TX
- George Cassety Pendleton D-TX
- Charles Keith Bell D-TX
- Joseph Draper Sayers D-TX
- Walter Gresham D-TX
- William Henry Crain D-TX
- Thomas Moore Paschal D-TX
- Jeremiah Vardaman Cockrell D-TX
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- David Gardiner Tyler D-VA
- James Fletcher Epes D-VA
- Claude Augustus Swanson D-VA
- Paul Carrington Edmunds D-VA
- Smith Spangler Turner D-VA
- Elisha Edward Meredith D-VA
- James William Marshall D-VA
- Henry St. George Tucker D-VA
- Charles Barwig D-WI
- Peter J. Somers D-WI
- Lyman Eddy Barnes D-WI
- Thomas Lynch D-WI
- John Overton Pendleton D-WV
- John Duffy Alderson D-WV
- Henry Asa Coffeen D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Jeremiah (Jerry) Simpson O-KS
- Joseph Henry O'Neil D-MA
- Charles Sturtevant Randall R-MA
- Richard Bartholdt R-MO
- Henry William Blair R-NH
- Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer D-NJ
- Thomas Dunn English D-NJ
- William Jerome Coombs D-NY
- Franklin Bartlett D-NY
- Edward John Dunphy D-NY
- William Bourke Cockran D-NY
- Charles Delemere Haines D-NY
- Charles Tracey D-NY
- John Madison Wever R-NY
- Charles Addison Chickering R-NY
- George Washington Ray R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- George Washington Wilson R-OH
- Charles Henry Grosvenor R-OH
- Irving Price Wanger R-PA
- Ephraim Milton Woomer R-PA
Did not vote
- Richard Henry Clarke D-AL
- George Paul Harrison D-AL
- John Sebastian Little D-AR
- Hugh Anderson Dinsmore D-AR
- Robert Neill D-AR
- Samuel Greeley Hilborn R-CA
- Warren Barkley English D-CA
- Eugene Francis Loud R-CA
- Lewis Sperry D-CT
- Charles Addison Russell R-CT
- Charles Merian Cooper D-FL
- Charles Frederick Crisp D-GA
- John Henry Gear R-IA
- David Bremner Henderson R-IA
- Thomas Updegraff R-IA
- Robert Gordon Cousins R-IA
- John Albert Tiffin Hull R-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Alva Lysander Hager R-IA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- George Douglas Perkins R-IA
- James Franklin Aldrich R-IL
- Allan Cathcart Durborow Jr. D-IL
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Robert Roberts Hitt R-IL
- Thomas Jefferson Henderson R-IL
- Robert Andrew Childs R-IL
- Hamilton Kinkaid Wheeler R-IL
- Philip Sidney Post R-IL
- Benjamin Franklin Marsh R-IL
- Benjamin Franklin Funk R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- George Washington Smith R-IL
- Jason Brevoort Brown D-IN
- Henry Underwood Johnson R-IN
- Daniel Webster Waugh R-IN
- Case Broderick R-KS
- Edward Hogue Funston R-KS
- Horace Ladd Moore D-KS
- Charles Curtis R-KS
- William Alexander Harris O-KS
- William Thomas Ellis D-KY
- William Morgan Beckner D-KY
- Silas Adams R-KY
- Robert Charles Davey D-LA
- Andrew Price D-LA
- Henry Warren Ogden D-LA
- Charles Jahleal Boatner D-LA
- Ashley Bascom Wright R-MA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- Joseph Henry Walker R-MA
- Lewis Dewart Apsley R-MA
- Moses Tyler Stevens D-MA
- William Cogswell R-MA
- William Everett D-MA
- Samuel Walker Mccall R-MA
- William Franklin Draper R-MA
- Elijah Adams Morse R-MA
- Robert Franklin Bratton D-MD
- Winder Laird Henry D-MD
- Isidor Rayner D-MD
- Charles Edward Coffin R-MD
- Thomas Brackett Reed R-ME
- Nelson Dingley Jr. R-ME
- Seth Llewellyn Milliken R-ME
- Charles Addison Boutelle R-ME
- John Logan Chipman D-MI
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Henry Franklin Thomas R-MI
- David Demerest Aitken R-MI
- William Seelye Linton R-MI
- John Wesley Moon R-MI
- John Avery R-MI
- Samuel Merritt Stephenson R-MI
- James Albertus Tawney R-MN
- James Thompson Mccleary R-MN
- Andrew Robert Kiefer R-MN
- Loren Fletcher R-MN
- John Charles Tarsney D-MO
- Charles Frederick Joy R-MO
- John Joseph O'Neill D-MO
- Thomas Settle R-NC
- Martin Nelson Johnson R-ND
- David Henry Mercer R-NE
- George de Rue Meiklejohn R-NE
- Eugene Jerome Hainer R-NE
- Henry Moore Baker R-NH
- Henry Clay Loudenslager R-NJ
- John James Gardner R-NJ
- Johnston Cornish D-NJ
- Cornelius Andrew Cadmus D-NJ
- George Bragg Fielder D-NJ
- James Way Covert D-NY
- Joseph Clifford Hendrix D-NY
- John Hugh Graham D-NY
- Thomas Francis Magner D-NY
- Timothy John Campbell D-NY
- John De Witt Warner D-NY
- John R. Fellows D-NY
- Lemuel Ely Quigg R-NY
- Ashbel Parmelee Fitch D-NY
- William Ryan D-NY
- Francis Marvin R-NY
- Jacob Le Fever R-NY
- Simon Jacob Schermerhorn D-NY
- Newton Martin Curtis R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- James Jerome Belden R-NY
- Charles William Gillet R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth R-NY
- John Van Voorhis R-NY
- Daniel Newton Lockwood D-NY
- Charles Daniels R-NY
- Warren Brewster Hooker R-NY
- Bellamy Storer R-OH
- Jacob Henry Bromwell R-OH
- John Alexander Caldwell R-OH
- George Washington Houk D-OH
- Paul John Sorg D-OH
- George Washington Hulick R-OH
- Luther Martin Strong R-OH
- Byron Foster Ritchie D-OH
- Hezekiah Sanford Bundy R-OH
- Michael Daniel Harter D-OH
- Henry Clay Van Voorhis R-OH
- James Alexander Dudley Richards D-OH
- George Pierce Ikirt D-OH
- Stephen Asa Northway R-OH
- William John White R-OH
- Tom Loftin Johnson D-OH
- Binger Hermann R-OR
- William Russell Ellis R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Charles O'Neill R-PA
- Robert Adams Jr. R-PA
- John Edgar Reyburn R-PA
- Alfred Crout Harmer R-PA
- John Buchanan Robinson R-PA
- William Mutchler D-PA
- Marriott Brosius R-PA
- Joseph Augustine Scranton R-PA
- William Henry Hines D-PA
- Edwin James Jorden R-PA
- Myron Benjamin Wright R-PA
- Albert Cole Hopkins R-PA
- Simon Peter Wolverton D-PA
- Thaddeus Maclay Mahon R-PA
- Josiah Duane Hicks R-PA
- Daniel Brodhead Heiner R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- William Alexis Stone R-PA
- William Allen Sipe D-PA
- Thomas Wharton Phillips R-PA
- Charles Warren Stone R-PA
- Alexander Mcdowell R-PA
- Galusha Aaron Grow R-PA
- William Lilly R-PA
- Charles Harrison Page D-RI
- James Ferdinand Izlar D-SC
- William Huggins Brawley D-SC
- Alfred Alexander Taylor R-TN
- John Chiles Houk R-TN
- Joseph Edwin Washington D-TN
- Joseph Chappell Hutcheson D-TX
- George Douglas Wise D-VA
- Charles Triplett O'Ferrall D-VA
- Horace Henry Powers R-VT
- William Wallace Grout R-VT
- John Lockwood Wilson R-WA
- William Hall Doolittle R-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- Joseph Weeks Babcock R-WI
- George H. Brickner D-WI
- Owen Augustine Wells D-WI
- George Bullen Shaw R-WI
- Michael Griffin R-WI
- Nils Pederson Haugen R-WI
- William Lyne Wilson D-WV
- James Capehart D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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