To amend a resolution providing compensation and police force in the house office building, by reducing the number of policemen in the house office building fro

On Feb 22, 1908, the House voted 132–79. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 42–72, Democrats 90–7. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 49 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: 132
No: 79
Did not vote: 188
Date: Feb 22, 1908

By party

Democrats90 yes · 7 no · 73 didn’t vote
Republicans42 yes · 72 no · 114 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Julius Kahn R-CA voted yes
Everis Anson Hayes R-CA voted yes
Ebenezer J. Hill R-CT voted yes
Frank Clark D-FL voted no
Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA voted yes
Albert Foster Dawson R-IA voted yes
Benjamin Pixley Birdsall R-IA voted yes
Robert Gordon Cousins R-IA voted yes
Walter Inglewood Smith R-IA voted yes
Elbert Hamilton Hubbard R-IA voted yes
Burton Lee French R-ID voted yes
Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL voted yes
James Robert Mann R-IL voted yes
James Thomas Mcdermott D-IL voted no
James Mckinney R-IL voted yes
Pleasant Thomas Chapman R-IL voted yes
Edgar Dean Crumpacker R-IN voted yes
John Thomas Watkins D-LA voted no
George Pelton Lawrence R-MA voted yes
Charles Grenfill Washburn R-MA voted yes
Charles Edgar Littlefield R-ME voted yes
Llewellyn Powers R-ME voted yes
Charles Elroy Townsend R-MI voted yes
Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI voted yes
Gerrit John Diekema R-MI voted yes
Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI voted yes
James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI voted yes
Charles Russell Davis R-MN voted yes
Frank Mellen Nye R-MN voted yes
Charles August Lindbergh R-MN voted yes
James Adam Bede R-MN voted yes
John Frank Boyd R-NE voted yes
George William Norris R-NE voted yes
Ira Wells Wood R-NJ voted yes
Joseph Aloysius Goulden D-NY voted no
John Emory Andrus R-NY voted yes
James Breck Perkins R-NY voted yes
William Russell Ellis R-OR voted yes
George Deardorff Mccreary R-PA voted yes
George Washington Kipp D-PA voted no
William Harrison Graham R-PA voted yes
George Swinton Legaré D-SC voted no
Nathan Wesley Hale R-TN voted yes
Harry Lee Maynard D-VA voted no
Wesley Livsey Jones R-WA voted yes
William Henry Stafford R-WI voted yes
Elmer Addison Morse R-WI voted yes
John James Jenkins R-WI voted yes
William Pallister Hubbard R-WV voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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Capitol Receipts, “To amend a resolution providing compensation…: House Vote, Feb 22…,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/60-H-7/to-amend-a-resolution-providing-compensation-and-police-force (accessed 2026-10-17).