To adjourn during debate on H. R. 22871, a bill establishing an agricultural extension department.

On Aug 20, 1912, the House voted 31–119. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 4–97, Republicans 28–24. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 28 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: 31
No: 119
Did not vote: 255
Date: Aug 20, 1912

By party

Democrats4 yes · 97 no · 136 didn’t vote
Republicans28 yes · 24 no · 117 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL voted yes
Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL voted yes
John Charles Floyd D-AR voted yes
Charles Augustus Kennedy 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
Burton Lee French R-ID voted no
James Mckinney R-IL voted no
John Allen Sterling R-IL voted no
William Brown Mckinley R-IL voted no
Victor Murdock R-KS voted no
John Alden Thayer D-MA voted yes
John Wingate Weeks R-MA voted no
William Walter Wedemeyer R-MI voted no
John M. C. Smith R-MI voted no
Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI voted no
Samuel William Smith R-MI voted no
Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN voted no
George William Norris R-NE voted no
Frank Bartlett Willis R-OH voted no
Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK voted no
Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR voted no
Abraham Walter Lafferty R-OR voted no
John Richard Farr R-PA voted no
Richard Wilson Austin R-TN voted no
Joseph Howell R-UT voted no
William Leroy La Follette R-WA voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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