To suspend the rules and recede from their disagreement to Senate amendment 63 and concur in same, relating to H. R. 18347 (35 stat 406, 5/27/08), a bill making

On May 23, 1908, the House voted 94–187 (HR 18347). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 94–70, Democrats 0–118. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 70 members voted against their own party.

During the 60th Congress (1907–1908), Theodore Roosevelt was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 94
No: 187
Did not vote: 117
Date: May 23, 1908

By party

Democrats0 yes · 118 no · 52 didn’t vote
Republicans94 yes · 70 no · 64 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Duncan E. Mckinlay R-CA voted no
Edwin Werter Higgins R-CT voted no
Ebenezer J. Hill R-CT voted no
Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA voted no
Albert Foster Dawson R-IA voted no
Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA voted no
Walter Inglewood Smith R-IA voted no
Burton Lee French R-ID voted no
James Robert Mann R-IL voted no
William Warfield Wilson R-IL voted no
Charles Mcgavin R-IL voted no
George Edmund Foss R-IL voted no
Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL voted no
James Mckinney R-IL voted no
George Washington Prince R-IL voted no
Pleasant Thomas Chapman R-IL voted no
Charles Frederick Scott R-KS voted no
Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS voted no
James Monroe Miller R-KS voted no
William Augustus Reeder R-KS voted no
Edmond Haggard Madison R-KS voted no
Victor Murdock R-KS voted no
Don Calvin Edwards R-KY voted no
Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI voted no
James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI voted no
Archibald Bard Darragh R-MI voted no
Charles Russell Davis R-MN voted no
Charles August Lindbergh R-MN voted no
Andrew John Volstead R-MN voted no
James Adam Bede R-MN voted no
Halvor Steenerson R-MN voted no
Edgar Clarence Ellis R-MO voted no
Henry Stewart Caulfield R-MO voted no
Charles Nelson Pray R-MT voted no
Ernest Mark Pollard R-NE voted no
John Frank Boyd R-NE voted no
Edmund Howard Hinshaw R-NE voted no
George William Norris R-NE voted no
Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE voted no
Charles Newell Fowler R-NJ voted no
William Musgrave Calder R-NY voted no
Herbert Parsons R-NY voted no
George Roland Malby R-NY voted no
Charles Luman Knapp R-NY voted no
Michael Edward Driscoll R-NY voted no
James Breck Perkins R-NY voted no
Grant Earl Mouser R-OH voted no
Jay Ford Laning R-OH voted no
Leonard Paul Howland R-OH voted no
Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH voted no
Bird Segle Mcguire R-OK voted no
Irving Price Wanger R-PA voted no
Daniel Franklin Lafean R-PA voted no
Charles Frederick Barclay R-PA voted no
Ernest Francis Acheson R-PA voted no
Philo Hall R-SD voted no
David Johnson Foster R-VT voted no
Francis Wellington Cushman R-WA voted no
Wesley Livsey Jones R-WA voted no
William Ewart Humphrey R-WA voted no
Henry Allen Cooper R-WI voted no
John Mandt Nelson R-WI voted no
William Joseph Cary R-WI voted no
William Henry Stafford R-WI voted no
John Jacob Esch R-WI voted no
James Henry Davidson R-WI voted no
Gustav Küstermann R-WI voted no
Elmer Addison Morse R-WI voted no
Joseph Holt Gaines R-WV voted no
Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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