Senate roll call 162 · 61st Congress · May 16, 1910
To amend S. 6737, by proposing that said court be composed of three judges, to be designated by the President to serve for one, two or three years respectively.
On May 16, 1910, the Senate voted 25–35 (S 6737). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 9–36, Democrats 16–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 10 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
- 25
- No
- 35
- Did not vote
- 41
- Date
- May 16, 1910
By party
- Democrats16 yes · 1 no · 23 didn’t vote
- Republicans9 yes · 36 no · 18 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Albert Baird Cummins R-IA voted yes
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA voted yes
- William Edgar Borah R-ID voted yes
- Albert Jeremiah Beveridge R-IN voted yes
- Joseph Little Bristow R-KS voted yes
- Samuel Douglas Mcenery D-LA voted no
- Moses Edwin Clapp R-MN voted yes
- Jonathan Bourne Jr. R-OR voted yes
- Coe Isaac Crawford R-SD voted yes
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI voted yes
How each senator voted: Yes
- Joseph Forney Johnston D-AL
- Charles James Hughes Jr. D-CO
- Duncan Upshaw Fletcher D-FL
- Alexander Stephens Clay D-GA
- Augustus Octavius Bacon D-GA
- Albert Baird Cummins R-IA
- Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver R-IA
- William Edgar Borah R-ID
- Albert Jeremiah Beveridge R-IN
- Benjamin Franklin Shively D-IN
- Joseph Little Bristow R-KS
- Thomas Hanson Paynter D-KY
- Isidor Rayner D-MD
- Moses Edwin Clapp R-MN
- Le Roy Percy D-MS
- William Edward Purcell D-ND
- Francis Griffith Newlands D-NV
- Thomas Pryor Gore D-OK
- Jonathan Bourne Jr. R-OR
- Ellison DuRant Smith D-SC
- Coe Isaac Crawford R-SD
- James Beriah Frazier D-TN
- Joseph Weldon Bailey D-TX
- 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
- Simon Guggenheim R-CO
- Frank Bosworth Brandegee R-CT
- Morgan Gardner Bulkeley R-CT
- Shelby Moore Cullom R-IL
- Charles Curtis R-KS
- William O'Connell Bradley R-KY
- Samuel Douglas Mcenery D-LA
- Henry Cabot Lodge R-MA
- Winthrop Murray Crane R-MA
- Eugene Hale R-ME
- William Pierce Frye R-ME
- Julius Caesar Burrows R-MI
- William Alden Smith R-MI
- Thomas Henry Carter R-MT
- Elmer Jacob Burkett R-NE
- Norris Brown R-NE
- Henry Eben Burnham R-NH
- Jacob Harold Gallinger R-NH
- Frank Obadiah Briggs R-NJ
- John Kean R-NJ
- George Stuart Nixon R-NV
- Elihu Root R-NY
- Theodore Elijah Burton R-OH
- George Tener Oliver R-PA
- George Peabody Wetmore R-RI
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich R-RI
- Robert Jackson Gamble R-SD
- George Sutherland R-UT
- Reed Smoot R-UT
- Carroll Smalley Page R-VT
- William Paul Dillingham R-VT
- Samuel Henry Piles R-WA
- Wesley Livsey Jones R-WA
- Isaac Stephenson R-WI
- Stephen Benton Elkins R-WV
Did not vote
- John Hollis Bankhead D-AL
- James Paul Clarke D-AR
- Jeff Davis D-AR
- Harry Alden Richardson R-DE
- Henry Algernon Du Pont R-DE
- James Piper Taliaferro D-FL
- Joseph Meriwether Terrell D-GA
- Lafayette Young R-IA
- Weldon Brinton Heyburn R-ID
- William Lorimer R-IL
- John Randolph Thornton D-LA
- Murphy James Foster D-LA
- John Walter Smith D-MD
- Knute Nelson R-MN
- William Joel Stone D-MO
- William Warner R-MO
- Anselm Joseph Mclaurin D-MS
- Hernando De Soto Money D-MS
- James Gordon D-MS
- Joseph Moore Dixon R-MT
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC
- Lee Slater Overman D-NC
- Asle Jorgenson Gronna R-ND
- Fountain Land Thompson D-ND
- Martin Nelson Johnson R-ND
- Porter James Mccumber R-ND
- Chauncey Mitchell Depew R-NY
- Charles William Frederick Dick R-OH
- Robert Latham Owen D-OK
- George Earle Chamberlain D-OR
- Boies Penrose R-PA
- Benjamin Ryan Tillman D-SC
- Robert Love Taylor D-TN
- Charles Allen Culberson D-TX
- Claude Augustus Swanson D-VA
- John Warwick Daniel D-VA
- Clarence Wayland Watson D-WV
- Davis Elkins R-WV
- Nathan Bay Scott R-WV
- Clarence Don Clark R-WY
- Francis Emroy Warren R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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