Senate roll call 29 · 59th Congress · May 9, 1906
To amend bill H.R. 12987, by empowering the interstate commerce commission to prohibit any common carrier from charging any greater compensation for the transpo
On May 9, 1906, the Senate voted 25–46 (HR 12987). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 2–44, Democrats 23–2. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 4 members voted against their own party.
During the 59th Congress (1905–1906), Theodore Roosevelt was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 25
- No
- 46
- Did not vote
- 24
- Date
- May 9, 1906
By party
- Democrats23 yes · 2 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans2 yes · 44 no · 15 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL voted yes
- William Andrews Clark D-MT voted no
- John McDermeid Gearin D-OR voted no
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Edmund Winston Pettus D-AL
- James Henderson Berry D-AR
- James Paul Clarke D-AR
- Henry Moore Teller D-CO
- James Piper Taliaferro D-FL
- Alexander Stephens Clay D-GA
- Augustus Octavius Bacon D-GA
- Fred Thomas Dubois D-ID
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- James Bennett Mccreary D-KY
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn D-KY
- Isidor Rayner D-MD
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- Anselm Joseph Mclaurin D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC
- Lee Slater Overman D-NC
- Asbury Churchwell Latimer D-SC
- Benjamin Ryan Tillman D-SC
- James Beriah Frazier D-TN
- Charles Allen Culberson D-TX
- Joseph Weldon Bailey D-TX
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- Thomas Staples Martin D-VA
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
How each senator voted: No
- Frank Putnam Flint R-CA
- George Clement Perkins R-CA
- Frank Bosworth Brandegee R-CT
- Morgan Gardner Bulkeley R-CT
- James Frank Allee R-DE
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- Albert Jarvis Hopkins R-IL
- Albert Jeremiah Beveridge R-IN
- James Alexander Hemenway R-IN
- Chester Isaiah Long R-KS
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- Winthrop Murray Crane R-MA
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- Moses Edwin Clapp R-MN
- William Warner R-MO
- Thomas Henry Carter R-MT
- William Andrews Clark D-MT
- Henry Clay Hansbrough R-ND
- Porter James Mccumber R-ND
- Elmer Jacob Burkett R-NE
- Joseph Hopkins Millard R-NE
- Henry Eben Burnham R-NH
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- John Fairfield Dryden R-NJ
- John Kean R-NJ
- George Stuart Nixon R-NV
- Charles William Frederick Dick R-OH
- Joseph Benson Foraker R-OH
- Charles William Fulton R-OR
- John McDermeid Gearin D-OR
- Philander Chase Knox R-PA
- George Peabody Wetmore R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Alfred Beard Kittredge R-SD
- George Sutherland R-UT
- Reed Smoot R-UT
- William Paul Dillingham R-VT
- Levi Ankeny R-WA
- Samuel Henry Piles R-WA
- John Coit Spooner R-WI
- Nathan Bay Scott R-WV
- Stephen Benton Elkins R-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
- Francis Emroy Warren R-WY
Did not vote
- John Tyler Morgan D-AL
- Thomas MacDonald Patterson D-CO
- Henry Algernon Du Pont R-DE
- Stephen Russell Mallory D-FL
- William Boyd Allison R-IA
- Weldon Brinton Heyburn R-ID
- Alfred Washburn Benson R-KS
- Charles Curtis R-KS
- Joseph Ralph Burton R-KS
- Murphy James Foster D-LA
- Samuel Douglas Mcenery D-LA
- Arthur Pue Gorman D-MD
- William Pinkney Whyte D-MD
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Russell Alexander Alger R-MI
- William Alden Smith R-MI
- Francis Griffith Newlands D-NV
- Chauncey Mitchell Depew R-NY
- Thomas Collier Platt R-NY
- Frederick William Mulkey R-OR
- Boies Penrose R-PA
- Robert Jackson Gamble R-SD
- Edward Ward Carmack D-TN
- Redfield Proctor R-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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