To adopt the 8th division of the substitute resolution for H. RES. 444, a resolution to change the house rules temporarily for consideration of new legislation

On Apr 18, 1912, the House voted 178–99. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 118–51, Republicans 60–49, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 100 members voted against their own party.

During the 62nd Congress (1911–1912), William Howard Taft was president, and Democrats held the House majority and Republicans the Senate majority.

Yes: 178
No: 99
Did not vote: 129
Date: Apr 18, 1912

By party

Democrats118 yes · 51 no · 68 didn’t vote
Republicans60 yes · 49 no · 60 didn’t vote
Others1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL voted no
Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL voted no
John Lawson Burnett D-AL voted no
William Richardson D-AL voted no
Oscar Wilder Underwood D-AL voted no
Robert Bruce Macon D-AR voted no
John Charles Floyd D-AR voted no
Everis Anson Hayes R-CA voted no
James Carson Needham R-CA voted no
Seaborn Anderson Roddenbery D-GA voted no
Charles Lafayette Bartlett D-GA voted no
Gordon Lee D-GA voted no
Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA voted no
William Gordon Brantley D-GA voted no
Charles Edgar Pickett R-IA voted no
James William Good R-IA voted no
Solomon Francis Prouty R-IA voted no
Horace Mann Towner R-IA voted no
William Raymond Green R-IA voted no
Elbert Hamilton Hubbard R-IA voted no
James Robert Mann R-IL voted no
George Edmund Foss R-IL voted no
Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted no
William Brown Mckinley R-IL voted no
Napoleon Bonaparte Thistlewood R-IL voted no
Charles Alexander Korbly D-IN voted no
Martin Andrew Morrison D-IN voted no
Edgar Dean Crumpacker R-IN voted no
Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY voted no
Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY voted no
John Wesley Langley R-KY voted no
Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA voted no
William Henry Wilder R-MA voted no
Ernest William Roberts R-MA voted no
Robert Orr Harris R-MA voted no
Edwin Forrest Sweet D-MI voted no
Henry Gordon Mcmorran R-MI voted no
Horace Olin Young R-MI voted no
Sydney Anderson R-MN voted no
Richard Bartholdt R-MO voted no
Theron Ephron Catlin R-MO voted no
Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO voted no
Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC voted no
Cyrus Adams Sulloway R-NH voted no
Frank Dunklee Currier R-NH voted no
William John Browning R-NJ voted no
Ira Wells Wood R-NJ voted no
William Edgar Tuttle Jr. D-NJ voted no
Edward Waterman Townsend D-NJ voted no
Walter Irving Mccoy D-NJ voted no
Martin Wiley Littleton D-NY voted no
Frank Eugene Wilson D-NY voted no
William Cox Redfield D-NY voted no
William Musgrave Calder R-NY voted no
John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY voted no
William Sulzer D-NY voted no
Steven Beckwith Ayres D-NY voted no
John Emory Andrus R-NY voted no
William Henry Draper R-NY voted no
George Roland Malby R-NY voted no
Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY voted no
Henry Gold Danforth R-NY voted no
Nicholas Longworth R-OH voted no
James Douglass Post D-OH voted no
Frank Bartlett Willis R-OH voted no
Horatio Clifford Claypool D-OH voted no
William Graves Sharp D-OH voted no
John Jefferson Whitacre D-OH voted no
Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA voted no
Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA voted no
John Hoover Rothermel D-PA voted no
Curtis Hussey Gregg D-PA voted no
Alexander Mitchell Palmer D-PA voted no
Peter Moore Speer R-PA voted no
John Dalzell R-PA voted no
Andrew Jackson Barchfeld R-PA voted no
David Edward Finley D-SC voted no
James Edwin Ellerbe D-SC voted no
Charles Henry Burke R-SD voted no
Eben Wever Martin R-SD voted no

And 20 more.

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 adopt the 8th division of the substitute…: House Vote, Apr 18, 1912,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/62-H-115/to-adopt-the-8th-division-of-the-substitute-resolution (accessed 2026-10-17).