House roll call 85 · 61st Congress · Mar 25, 1910
To resolve the house into the committee of the whole in order to consider the bills on the private calendar. (p. 3771-1)
On Mar 25, 1910, the House voted 167–92. Result: passed. By party: Republicans 82–66, Democrats 85–26. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 92 members voted against their own party.
During the 61st Congress (1909–1910), William Howard Taft was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 167
- No
- 92
- Did not vote
- 143
- Date
- Mar 25, 1910
By party
- Democrats85 yes · 26 no · 69 didn’t vote
- Republicans82 yes · 66 no · 74 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Julius Kahn R-CA voted no
- James Carson Needham R-CA voted no
- Sylvester Clark Smith R-CA voted no
- Edward Stevens Henry R-CT voted no
- Nehemiah Day Sperry R-CT voted no
- William Henry Heald R-DE voted no
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA voted no
- Albert Foster Dawson R-IA voted no
- Charles Edgar Pickett R-IA voted no
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA voted no
- Nathan Edward Kendall R-IA voted no
- Frank Plowman Woods R-IA voted no
- Elbert Hamilton Hubbard R-IA voted no
- Thomas Ray Hamer R-ID voted no
- James Robert Mann R-IL voted no
- George Edmund Foss R-IL voted no
- Joseph Verdi Graff R-IL voted no
- John Allen Sterling R-IL voted no
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL voted no
- Edgar Dean Crumpacker R-IN voted no
- James Monroe Miller R-KS voted no
- William Augustus Reeder R-KS voted no
- Victor Murdock R-KS voted no
- Ollie Murray James D-KY voted no
- Don Calvin Edwards R-KY voted no
- George Pelton Lawrence R-MA voted no
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA voted no
- Charles Grenfill Washburn R-MA voted no
- Ernest William Roberts R-MA voted no
- John Wingate Weeks R-MA voted no
- John Kronmiller R-MD voted no
- Amos Lawrence Allen R-ME voted no
- Gerrit John Diekema R-MI voted no
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI voted no
- James Albertus Tawney R-MN voted no
- Frederick Clement Stevens R-MN voted no
- Frank Mellen Nye R-MN voted no
- Charles August Lindbergh R-MN voted no
- Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN voted no
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN voted no
- James Tilghman Lloyd D-MO voted no
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO voted no
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO voted no
- Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO voted no
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO voted no
- Richard Bartholdt R-MO voted no
- Harry Marcy Coudrey R-MO voted no
- Politte Elvins R-MO voted no
- Arthur Phillips Murphy R-MO voted no
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS voted no
- Thomas Spight D-MS voted no
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS voted no
- Adam Monroe Byrd D-MS voted no
- James William Collier D-MS voted no
- Robert Newton Page D-NC voted no
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC voted no
- Asle Jorgenson Gronna R-ND voted no
- James Polk Latta D-NE voted no
- George William Norris R-NE voted no
- Henry Clay Loudenslager R-NJ voted no
- Hamilton Fish R-NY voted no
- Michael Edward Driscoll R-NY voted no
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY voted no
- Edward Butterfield Vreeland R-NY voted no
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH voted no
- James Henry Cassidy R-OH voted no
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK voted no
- Joel Cook R-PA voted no
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA voted no
- Marlin Edgar Olmsted R-PA voted no
- Allen Foster Cooper R-PA voted no
- John Dalzell R-PA voted no
- James Francis Burke R-PA voted no
- William Paine Sheffield R-RI voted no
- James O'Hanlon Patterson D-SC voted no
- David Edward Finley D-SC voted no
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC voted no
- Walter Preston Brownlow R-TN voted no
- James Andrew (Jack) Beall D-TX voted no
- Rufus Hardy D-TX voted no
And 12 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- Henry De Lamar Clayton D-AL
- William Richardson D-AL
- Oscar Wilder Underwood D-AL
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR
- John Charles Floyd D-AR
- Charles Chester Reid D-AR
- William Fellows Englebright R-CA
- Joseph Russell Knowland R-CA
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA
- James Mclachlan R-CA
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Edwin Werter Higgins R-CT
- Stephen Milancthon Sparkman D-FL
- Seaborn Anderson Roddenbery D-GA
- Dudley Mays Hughes D-GA
- Leonidas Felix Livingston D-GA
- Charles Lafayette Bartlett D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- William Marcellus Howard D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- William Gordon Brantley D-GA
- Walter Inglewood Smith R-IA
- William Warfield Wilson R-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- Frank Orren Lowden R-IL
- James Mckinney R-IL
- George Washington Prince R-IL
- William Brown Mckinley R-IL
- William August Rodenberg R-IL
- Martin David Foster D-IL
- Pleasant Thomas Chapman R-IL
- Napoleon Bonaparte Thistlewood R-IL
- John William Boehne D-IN
- William Allen Cullop D-IN
- William Elijah Cox D-IN
- Ralph Wilbur Moss D-IN
- Charles Alexander Korbly D-IN
- John Alfred Adair D-IN
- Martin Andrew Morrison D-IN
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- Charles Frederick Scott R-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- William Alexander Calderhead R-KS
- Augustus Owsley Stanley D-KY
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- Harvey Helm D-KY
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- Robert Foligny Broussard D-LA
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA
- Joseph Eugene Ransdell D-LA
- Arsène Paulin Pujo D-LA
- 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
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- John Philip Swasey R-ME
- Edwin Chick Burleigh R-ME
- Frank Edward Guernsey R-ME
- Charles Elroy Townsend R-MI
- Henry Gordon Mcmorran R-MI
- George Alvin Loud R-MI
- Francis Henry Dodds R-MI
- Horace Olin Young R-MI
- Winfield Scott Hammond D-MN
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Patrick Francis Gill D-MO
- Charles Augustus Crow R-MO
- Charles Henry Morgan R-MO
- William Alexander Dickson D-MS
- Charles Nelson Pray R-MT
- Charles Randolph Thomas D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- Louis Benjamin Hanna R-ND
- John Arthur Maguire D-NE
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE
- Cyrus Adams Sulloway R-NH
- Frank Dunklee Currier R-NH
- John James Gardner R-NJ
- Ira Wells Wood R-NJ
- Eugene Francis Kinkead D-NJ
- George Henry Lindsay D-NY
- Richard Young R-NY
- William Musgrave Calder R-NY
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- William Sulzer D-NY
- Charles Vincent Fornes D-NY
- Michael Francis Conry D-NY
- Herbert Parsons R-NY
- Jacob Van Vechten Olcott R-NY
- William Stiles Bennet R-NY
- Joseph Aloysius Goulden D-NY
- Thomas Wilson Bradley R-NY
- Cyrus Durey R-NY
- George Roland Malby R-NY
- Charles Stephen Millington R-NY
- Charles Luman Knapp R-NY
- John Wilbur Dwight R-NY
- James Samuel Simmons R-NY
- Daniel Angelus Driscoll D-NY
- James Middleton Cox D-OH
- William Ellsworth Tou Velle D-OH
- Timothy Thomas Ansberry D-OH
- Joseph Warren Keifer R-OH
- Ralph Dayton Cole R-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Edward Livingston Taylor Jr. R-OH
- Carl Carey Anderson D-OH
- James Joyce R-OH
- David Adams Hollingsworth R-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- James Kennedy R-OH
- William Aubrey Thomas R-OH
- Leonard Paul Howland R-OH
- Charles Edward Creager R-OK
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- William Russell Ellis R-OR
- Reuben Osborne Moon R-PA
- George Deardorff Mccreary R-PA
- Thomas David Nicholls D-PA
- Charles Clarence Pratt R-PA
- William Bauchop Wilson D-PA
- John Geiser Mchenry D-PA
- George Franklin Huff R-PA
- John Kinley Tener R-PA
- Arthur Laban Bates R-PA
- Alexander Mitchell Palmer D-PA
- Jonathan Nicholas Langham R-PA
- Nelson Platt Wheeler R-PA
- Andrew Jackson Barchfeld R-PA
- James Edwin Ellerbe D-SC
- Eben Wever Martin R-SD
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- William Cannon Houston D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- Morris Sheppard D-TX
- Martin Dies D-TX
- John Matthew Moore D-TX
- Albert Sidney Burleson D-TX
- Oscar William Gillespie D-TX
- William Robert Smith D-TX
- Joseph Howell R-UT
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- Robert Turnbull D-VA
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- David Johnson Foster R-VT
- William Ewart Humphrey R-WA
- William Wallace Mccredie R-WA
- Arthur William Kopp R-WI
- William Joseph Cary R-WI
- Elmer Addison Morse R-WI
- James Anthony Hughes R-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- James Carson Needham R-CA
- Sylvester Clark Smith R-CA
- Edward Stevens Henry R-CT
- Nehemiah Day Sperry R-CT
- William Henry Heald R-DE
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- Albert Foster Dawson R-IA
- Charles Edgar Pickett R-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- Nathan Edward Kendall R-IA
- Frank Plowman Woods R-IA
- Elbert Hamilton Hubbard R-IA
- Thomas Ray Hamer R-ID
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- George Edmund Foss R-IL
- Joseph Verdi Graff R-IL
- John Allen Sterling R-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- Edgar Dean Crumpacker R-IN
- James Monroe Miller R-KS
- William Augustus Reeder R-KS
- Victor Murdock R-KS
- Ollie Murray James D-KY
- Don Calvin Edwards R-KY
- George Pelton Lawrence R-MA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- Charles Grenfill Washburn R-MA
- Ernest William Roberts R-MA
- John Wingate Weeks R-MA
- John Kronmiller R-MD
- Amos Lawrence Allen R-ME
- Gerrit John Diekema R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- James Albertus Tawney R-MN
- Frederick Clement Stevens R-MN
- Frank Mellen Nye R-MN
- Charles August Lindbergh R-MN
- Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- James Tilghman Lloyd D-MO
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO
- Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- Richard Bartholdt R-MO
- Harry Marcy Coudrey R-MO
- Politte Elvins R-MO
- Arthur Phillips Murphy R-MO
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS
- Thomas Spight D-MS
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- Adam Monroe Byrd D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- Robert Newton Page D-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- Asle Jorgenson Gronna R-ND
- James Polk Latta D-NE
- George William Norris R-NE
- Henry Clay Loudenslager R-NJ
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Michael Edward Driscoll R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Edward Butterfield Vreeland R-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- James Henry Cassidy R-OH
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- Joel Cook R-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- Marlin Edgar Olmsted R-PA
- Allen Foster Cooper R-PA
- John Dalzell R-PA
- James Francis Burke R-PA
- William Paine Sheffield R-RI
- James O'Hanlon Patterson D-SC
- David Edward Finley D-SC
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- Walter Preston Brownlow R-TN
- James Andrew (Jack) Beall D-TX
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- George Farmer Burgess D-TX
- Robert Lee Henry D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- James Hay D-VA
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA
- Miles Poindexter R-WA
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- Gustav Küstermann R-WI
- Irvine Luther Lenroot R-WI
- George Cookman Sturgiss R-WV
- Joseph Holt Gaines R-WV
Did not vote
- George Washington Taylor D-AL
- William Benjamin Craig D-AL
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- Richmond Pearson Hobson D-AL
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL
- Robert Bruce Macon D-AR
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- Joseph Taylor Robinson D-AR
- Robert Minor Wallace D-AR
- Duncan E. Mckinlay R-CA
- Atterson Walden Rucker D-CO
- Ebenezer J. Hill R-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- Frank Clark D-FL
- Dannite Hill Mays D-FL
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA
- James Mathews Griggs D-GA
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- Thomas William Hardwick D-GA
- James William Good R-IA
- John Albert Tiffin Hull R-IA
- William Darius Jamieson D-IA
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- James Thomas Mcdermott D-IL
- William James Moxley R-IL
- William Lorimer R-IL
- Frederick Lundin R-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- Henry Sherman Boutell R-IL
- Howard Malcolm Snapp R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- James McMahon Graham D-IL
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN
- William Oscar Barnard R-IN
- George Washington Rauch D-IN
- Cyrus Cline D-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Edmond Haggard Madison R-KS
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY
- Joseph Lafayette Rhinock D-KY
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- Joseph Bentley Bennett R-KY
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- Samuel Louis Gilmore D-LA
- Robert Charles Wickliffe D-LA
- Charles Quincy Tirrell R-MA
- John Joseph Mitchell D-MA
- Butler Ames R-MA
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA
- Eugene Noble Foss D-MA
- William Croad Lovering R-MA
- James Harry Covington D-MD
- John Gill Jr. D-MD
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- George Alexander Pearre R-MD
- Edwin Denby R-MI
- Washington Gardner R-MI
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI
- Samuel William Smith R-MI
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- William Patterson Borland D-MO
- David Albaugh De Armond D-MO
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- Eaton Jackson Bowers D-MS
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- John Motley Morehead R-NC
- Charles Holden Cowles R-NC
- John Gaston Grant R-NC
- Gilbert Monell Hitchcock D-NE
- Edmund Howard Hinshaw R-NE
- Benjamin Franklin Howell R-NJ
- Charles Newell Fowler R-NJ
- William Hughes D-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- William Halsted Wiley R-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- George Arthur Bartlett D-NV
- William Willets Cocks R-NY
- Otto Godfrey Foelker R-NY
- Charles Blakeslee Law R-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Henry Mayer Goldfogle D-NY
- William Forte Willett Jr. D-NY
- Francis Burton Harrison D-NY
- John Emory Andrus R-NY
- William Henry Draper R-NY
- George Newell Southwick R-NY
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY
- James Breck Perkins R-NY
- James Smith Havens D-NY
- Jacob Sloat Fassett R-NY
- De Alva Stanwood Alexander R-NY
- Herman Philip Goebel R-OH
- Matthew Rombach Denver D-OH
- Adna Romulus Johnson R-OH
- Albert Douglas R-OH
- William Graves Sharp D-OH
- Bird Segle Mcguire R-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Henry Harrison Bingham R-PA
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- William Walker Foulkrod R-PA
- Irving Price Wanger R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- Henry Wilbur Palmer R-PA
- Alfred Buckwalter Garner R-PA
- John Hoover Rothermel D-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- John Merriman Reynolds R-PA
- Daniel Franklin Lafean R-PA
- Charles Frederick Barclay R-PA
- William Harrison Graham R-PA
- Adin Ballou Capron R-RI
- George Swinton Legaré D-SC
- Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- Joseph Travis Johnson D-SC
- Charles Henry Burke R-SD
- Zachary David Massey R-TN
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- George Washington Gordon D-TN
- Gordon James Russell D-TX
- Robert Maclin Lively D-TX
- Choice Boswell Randell D-TX
- John Hall Stephens D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- Harry Lee Maynard D-VA
- John Lamb D-VA
- Francis Rives Lassiter D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- Carter Glass D-VA
- Frank Plumley R-VT
- Francis Wellington Cushman R-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- William Henry Stafford R-WI
- Charles Herman Weisse D-WI
- John Jacob Esch R-WI
- James Henry Davidson R-WI
- William Pallister Hubbard R-WV
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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