House roll call 8 · 60th Congress · Mar 13, 1908
To amend H. R. 18347 (35 stat 406, 5/27/08), a bill making appropriations for post office department for the fiscal year ending 6/1909, by increasing appropriat
On Mar 13, 1908, the House voted 135–126 (HR 18347). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 84–69, Democrats 56–61, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 125 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
- 135
- No
- 126
- Did not vote
- 128
- Date
- Mar 13, 1908
By party
- Democrats56 yes · 61 no · 53 didn’t vote
- Republicans84 yes · 69 no · 75 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Richmond Pearson Hobson D-AL voted yes
- William Richardson D-AL voted yes
- James Carson Needham R-CA voted no
- Sylvester Clark Smith R-CA voted no
- Robert William Bonynge R-CO voted no
- Warren Armstrong Haggott R-CO voted no
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA voted yes
- Leonidas Felix Livingston D-GA voted yes
- Charles Lafayette Bartlett D-GA voted yes
- Thomas William Hardwick D-GA voted yes
- Benjamin Pixley Birdsall R-IA voted no
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA voted no
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA voted no
- James Thomas Mcdermott D-IL voted yes
- Howard Malcolm Snapp R-IL voted no
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL voted no
- Pleasant Thomas Chapman R-IL voted no
- Napoleon Bonaparte Thistlewood R-IL voted no
- John Hopkins Foster R-IN voted no
- John Crawford Chaney R-IN voted no
- Elias Selah Holliday R-IN voted no
- Jesse Overstreet R-IN voted no
- John Alfred Adair D-IN voted yes
- Charles Beary Landis R-IN voted no
- Edgar Dean Crumpacker R-IN voted no
- Clarence Chauncey Gilhams R-IN 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
- Ben Johnson D-KY voted yes
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY voted yes
- John Wesley Langley R-KY voted no
- Don Calvin Edwards R-KY voted no
- Robert Foligny Broussard D-LA voted yes
- Joseph Eugene Ransdell D-LA voted yes
- George Kent Favrot D-LA voted yes
- Arsène Paulin Pujo D-LA voted yes
- Charles Quincy Tirrell R-MA voted no
- John Austin Keliher D-MA voted yes
- Joseph Francis O'Connell D-MA voted yes
- Andrew James Peters D-MA voted yes
- John Gill Jr. D-MD voted yes
- Charles Edgar Littlefield R-ME voted no
- Charles Elroy Townsend R-MI voted no
- Washington Gardner R-MI voted no
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI voted no
- Samuel William Smith R-MI voted no
- Henry Gordon Mcmorran R-MI voted no
- Archibald Bard Darragh R-MI voted no
- Horace Olin Young R-MI voted no
- James Albertus Tawney R-MN voted no
- Winfield Scott Hammond D-MN voted yes
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN voted no
- Charles August Lindbergh R-MN voted no
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN voted no
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN voted no
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO voted yes
- Thomas Hackney D-MO voted yes
- John Sharp Williams D-MS voted yes
- Asle Jorgenson Gronna R-ND voted no
- Thomas Frank Marshall R-ND voted no
- Ernest Mark Pollard R-NE voted no
- Gilbert Monell Hitchcock D-NE voted yes
- John Frank Boyd R-NE voted no
- Edmund Howard Hinshaw R-NE voted no
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE voted no
- Henry Clay Loudenslager R-NJ voted no
- John James Gardner R-NJ voted no
- William Hughes D-NJ voted yes
- Eugene Walter Leake D-NJ voted yes
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY voted yes
- Henry Mayer Goldfogle D-NY voted yes
- William Sulzer D-NY voted yes
- Charles Vincent Fornes D-NY voted yes
- William Bourke Cockran D-NY voted yes
- William Forte Willett Jr. D-NY voted yes
- Francis Burton Harrison D-NY voted yes
And 45 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Richmond Pearson Hobson D-AL
- William Richardson D-AL
- William Fellows Englebright R-CA
- Duncan E. Mckinlay R-CA
- Joseph Russell Knowland R-CA
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA
- James Mclachlan R-CA
- George Washington Cook R-CO
- Edward Stevens Henry R-CT
- Nehemiah Day Sperry R-CT
- Edwin Werter Higgins R-CT
- Ebenezer J. Hill R-CT
- Hiram Rodney Burton R-DE
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA
- Leonidas Felix Livingston D-GA
- Charles Lafayette Bartlett D-GA
- Thomas William Hardwick D-GA
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- William Warfield Wilson R-IL
- James Thomas Mcdermott D-IL
- Philip Knopf R-IL
- Charles Mcgavin R-IL
- George Edmund Foss R-IL
- James Mckinney R-IL
- George Washington Prince R-IL
- Joseph Verdi Graff R-IL
- John Allen Sterling R-IL
- William Brown Mckinley R-IL
- John Alfred Adair D-IN
- Abraham Lincoln Brick R-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- William Alexander Calderhead R-KS
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY
- Robert Foligny Broussard D-LA
- Joseph Eugene Ransdell D-LA
- George Kent Favrot D-LA
- Arsène Paulin Pujo D-LA
- George Pelton Lawrence R-MA
- Butler Ames R-MA
- Ernest William Roberts R-MA
- Samuel Walker Mccall R-MA
- John Austin Keliher D-MA
- Joseph Francis O'Connell D-MA
- Andrew James Peters D-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- John Gill Jr. D-MD
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- George Alexander Pearre R-MD
- Amos Lawrence Allen R-ME
- Edwin Chick Burleigh R-ME
- Edwin Denby R-MI
- Gerrit John Diekema R-MI
- Winfield Scott Hammond D-MN
- Frederick Clement Stevens R-MN
- Frank Mellen Nye R-MN
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- Edgar Clarence Ellis R-MO
- Richard Bartholdt R-MO
- Henry Stewart Caulfield R-MO
- Thomas Hackney D-MO
- John Sharp Williams D-MS
- Charles Nelson Pray R-MT
- Gilbert Monell Hitchcock D-NE
- Cyrus Adams Sulloway R-NH
- Ira Wells Wood R-NJ
- William Hughes D-NJ
- Eugene Walter Leake D-NJ
- William Willets Cocks R-NY
- Charles Blakeslee Law R-NY
- George Ernest Waldo R-NY
- William Musgrave Calder R-NY
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- Henry Mayer Goldfogle D-NY
- William Sulzer D-NY
- Charles Vincent Fornes D-NY
- William Bourke Cockran D-NY
- Herbert Parsons R-NY
- William Forte Willett Jr. D-NY
- Jacob Van Vechten Olcott R-NY
- Francis Burton Harrison D-NY
- William Stiles Bennet R-NY
- Joseph Aloysius Goulden D-NY
- William Henry Draper R-NY
- George Newell Southwick R-NY
- James Schoolcraft Sherman R-NY
- James Breck Perkins R-NY
- Peter Augustus Porter O-NY
- William Henry Ryan D-NY
- De Alva Stanwood Alexander R-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Herman Philip Goebel R-OH
- John Eugene Harding R-OH
- William Ellsworth Tou Velle D-OH
- Timothy Thomas Ansberry D-OH
- Matthew Rombach Denver D-OH
- Ralph Dayton Cole R-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Albert Douglas R-OH
- Edward Livingston Taylor Jr. R-OH
- Grant Earl Mouser R-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- James Kennedy R-OH
- Leonard Paul Howland R-OH
- Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH
- William Russell Ellis R-OR
- Joel Cook R-PA
- William Walker Foulkrod R-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- John Thomas Lenahan D-PA
- John Hoover Rothermel D-PA
- George Washington Kipp D-PA
- John Geiser Mchenry D-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Marlin Edgar Olmsted R-PA
- John Merriman Reynolds R-PA
- Charles Frederick Barclay R-PA
- Arthur Laban Bates R-PA
- Joseph Davis Brodhead D-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- James Francis Burke R-PA
- Daniel Larned Davis Granger D-RI
- Joseph Travis Johnson D-SC
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- John Wesley Gaines D-TN
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- Morris Sheppard D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- Harry Lee Maynard D-VA
- James Hay D-VA
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA
- Wesley Livsey Jones R-WA
- William Ewart Humphrey R-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- James William Murphy D-WI
- Charles Herman Weisse D-WI
- Gustav Küstermann R-WI
- William Pallister Hubbard R-WV
How each representative voted: No
- George Washington Taylor D-AL
- Ariosto Appling Wiley D-AL
- Henry De Lamar Clayton D-AL
- William Benjamin Craig D-AL
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL
- Stephen Brundidge Jr. D-AR
- John Charles Floyd D-AR
- James Carson Needham R-CA
- Sylvester Clark Smith R-CA
- Robert William Bonynge R-CO
- Warren Armstrong Haggott R-CO
- Stephen Milancthon Sparkman D-FL
- Elijah Banks Lewis D-GA
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- William Marcellus Howard D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- William Gordon Brantley D-GA
- Benjamin Pixley Birdsall R-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- Daniel Webster Hamilton D-IA
- William Peters Hepburn R-IA
- Howard Malcolm Snapp R-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- Martin David Foster D-IL
- Pleasant Thomas Chapman R-IL
- Napoleon Bonaparte Thistlewood R-IL
- John Hopkins Foster R-IN
- John Crawford Chaney R-IN
- William Elijah Cox D-IN
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN
- Elias Selah Holliday R-IN
- Jesse Overstreet R-IN
- Charles Beary Landis R-IN
- Edgar Dean Crumpacker R-IN
- George Washington Rauch D-IN
- Clarence Chauncey Gilhams R-IN
- Charles Frederick Scott R-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- James Monroe Miller R-KS
- William Augustus Reeder R-KS
- Edmond Haggard Madison R-KS
- Victor Murdock R-KS
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- Don Calvin Edwards R-KY
- Charles Quincy Tirrell R-MA
- Charles Edgar Littlefield R-ME
- Charles Elroy Townsend R-MI
- Washington Gardner R-MI
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI
- Samuel William Smith R-MI
- Henry Gordon Mcmorran R-MI
- Archibald Bard Darragh R-MI
- Horace Olin Young R-MI
- James Albertus Tawney R-MN
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Charles August Lindbergh R-MN
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- David Albaugh De Armond D-MO
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- Madison Roswell Smith D-MO
- Joseph James Russell D-MO
- Thomas Spight D-MS
- Wilson Shedric Hill D-MS
- Adam Monroe Byrd D-MS
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- Charles Randolph Thomas D-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- Robert Newton Page D-NC
- Richard Nathaniel Hackett D-NC
- William Thomas Crawford D-NC
- Asle Jorgenson Gronna R-ND
- Thomas Frank Marshall R-ND
- Ernest Mark Pollard R-NE
- John Frank Boyd R-NE
- Edmund Howard Hinshaw R-NE
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE
- Henry Clay Loudenslager R-NJ
- John James Gardner R-NJ
- George Arthur Bartlett D-NV
- Thomas Wilson Bradley R-NY
- Michael Edward Driscoll R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Edward Butterfield Vreeland R-NY
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- Henry Towne Bannon R-OH
- Elmer Lincoln Fulton D-OK
- James Sanford Davenport D-OK
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- George Deardorff Mccreary R-PA
- Irving Price Wanger R-PA
- Joseph Grant Beale R-PA
- Nelson Platt Wheeler R-PA
- Adin Ballou Capron R-RI
- James O'Hanlon Patterson D-SC
- Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- James Edwin Ellerbe D-SC
- Philo Hall R-SD
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- William Cannon Houston D-TN
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN
- George Washington Gordon D-TN
- Samuel Bronson Cooper D-TX
- Gordon James Russell D-TX
- Choice Boswell Randell D-TX
- James Andrew (Jack) Beall D-TX
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- John Matthew Moore D-TX
- George Farmer Burgess D-TX
- Albert Sidney Burleson D-TX
- Robert Lee Henry D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- Joseph Howell R-UT
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- Kittredge Haskins R-VT
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- William Henry Stafford R-WI
- John Jacob Esch R-WI
- Elmer Addison Morse R-WI
- George Cookman Sturgiss R-WV
- Joseph Holt Gaines R-WV
Did not vote
- Oliver Cicero Wiley D-AL
- Oscar Wilder Underwood D-AL
- Robert Bruce Macon D-AR
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- Charles Chester Reid D-AR
- Joseph Taylor Robinson D-AR
- Robert Minor Wallace D-AR
- George Leavens Lilley R-CT
- Frank Clark D-FL
- William Bailey Lamar D-FL
- James Mathews Griggs D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- Albert Foster Dawson R-IA
- Robert Gordon Cousins R-IA
- John Albert Tiffin Hull R-IA
- Walter Inglewood Smith R-IA
- James Perry Conner R-IA
- Elbert Hamilton Hubbard R-IA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- William Lorimer R-IL
- Henry Sherman Boutell R-IL
- Frank Orren Lowden R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Ben Franklin Caldwell D-IL
- William August Rodenberg R-IL
- James Eli Watson R-IN
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- Ollie Murray James D-KY
- Augustus Owsley Stanley D-KY
- Addison Davis James R-KY
- Joseph Lafayette Rhinock D-KY
- William Preston Kimball D-KY
- Harvey Helm D-KY
- Joseph Bentley Bennett R-KY
- Adolph Meyer D-LA
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- Robert Charles Davey D-LA
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- Charles Grenfill Washburn R-MA
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA
- John Wingate Weeks R-MA
- William Croad Lovering R-MA
- William Humphreys Jackson R-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Harry Benjamin Wolf D-MD
- John Philip Swasey R-ME
- Frank Edward Guernsey R-ME
- Llewellyn Powers R-ME
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- George Alvin Loud R-MI
- James Adam Bede R-MN
- James Tilghman Lloyd D-MO
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO
- Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO
- Harry Marcy Coudrey R-MO
- James Robert Lamar D-MO
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- Eaton Jackson Bowers D-MS
- Frank Alexander Mclain D-MS
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- William Walton Kitchin D-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- George William Norris R-NE
- Frank Dunklee Currier R-NH
- Benjamin Franklin Howell R-NJ
- Charles Newell Fowler R-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- Le Gage Pratt D-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- George Henry Lindsay D-NY
- Charles Tappan Dunwell R-NY
- Otto Godfrey Foelker R-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- John Emory Andrus R-NY
- Samuel Mcmillan R-NY
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY
- Cyrus Durey R-NY
- George Roland Malby R-NY
- Charles Luman Knapp R-NY
- John Wilbur Dwight R-NY
- Jacob Sloat Fassett R-NY
- Jay Ford Laning R-OH
- Beman Gates Dawes R-OH
- Capell Lane Weems R-OH
- William Aubrey Thomas R-OH
- Bird Segle Mcguire R-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- Reuben Osborne Moon R-PA
- Henry Burd Cassel R-PA
- Thomas David Nicholls D-PA
- Charles Napoleon Brumm R-PA
- William Bauchop Wilson D-PA
- Daniel Franklin Lafean R-PA
- George Franklin Huff R-PA
- Allen Foster Cooper R-PA
- Ernest Francis Acheson R-PA
- William Harrison Graham R-PA
- Andrew Jackson Barchfeld R-PA
- George Swinton Legaré D-SC
- David Edward Finley D-SC
- Eben Wever Martin R-SD
- William Henry Parker R-SD
- Walter Preston Brownlow R-TN
- Nathan Wesley Hale R-TN
- Oscar William Gillespie D-TX
- John Hall Stephens D-TX
- William Robert Smith D-TX
- John Lamb D-VA
- Francis Rives Lassiter D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- Carter Glass D-VA
- Campbell Slemp R-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- David Johnson Foster R-VT
- Francis Wellington Cushman R-WA
- William Joseph Cary R-WI
- James Henry Davidson R-WI
- John James Jenkins R-WI
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
- James Anthony Hughes R-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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