To dispense with calendar wednesday for this day and allow other business. (p.859)

On Dec 18, 1912, the House voted 157–67. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 123–36, Republicans 47–43, Others 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 79 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: 157
No: 67
Did not vote: 158
Date: Dec 18, 1912

By party

Democrats123 yes · 36 no · 78 didn’t vote
Republicans47 yes · 43 no · 79 didn’t vote
Others0 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Julius Kahn R-CA voted no
James Carson Needham R-CA voted no
Atterson Walden Rucker D-CO voted no
Thomas Lawrence Reilly D-CT voted no
Ebenezer J. Hill R-CT voted no
John Quillin Tilson R-CT voted no
Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA voted no
James William Good R-IA voted no
Nathan Edward Kendall R-IA voted no
Horace Mann Towner R-IA voted no
Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL voted no
James Robert Mann R-IL voted no
James Thomas Mcdermott D-IL voted no
Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted no
Ira Clifton Copley R-IL voted no
Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL voted no
Claudius Ulysses Stone D-IL voted no
Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted no
James McMahon Graham D-IL voted no
William August Rodenberg R-IL voted no
Martin David Foster D-IL voted no
Edgar Dean Crumpacker R-IN voted no
Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS voted no
Rollin Raymond Rees R-KS voted no
Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY voted no
Albert Estopinal D-LA voted no
Henry Garland Dupré D-LA voted no
Lewis Lovering Morgan D-LA voted no
John Alden Thayer D-MA voted no
William Henry Wilder R-MA voted no
Butler Ames R-MA voted no
Ernest William Roberts R-MA voted no
William Francis Murray D-MA voted no
Andrew James Peters D-MA voted no
William Stedman Greene R-MA voted no
Daniel John Mcgillicuddy D-ME voted no
Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI voted no
William Walter Wedemeyer R-MI voted no
Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI voted no
George Alvin Loud R-MI voted no
Sydney Anderson R-MN voted no
Winfield Scott Hammond D-MN voted no
Charles Russell Davis R-MN voted no
Frank Mellen Nye R-MN voted no
Andrew John Volstead R-MN voted no
Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN voted no
Halvor Steenerson R-MN voted no
Charles Ferris Booher D-MO voted no
Richard Bartholdt R-MO voted no
Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO voted no
Charles Otto Lobeck D-NE voted no
Charles Henry Sloan R-NE voted no
Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE voted no
Walter Irving Mccoy D-NJ voted no
Eugene Francis Kinkead D-NJ voted no
Harvey Butler Fergusson D-NM voted no
James Paul Maher D-NY voted no
John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY voted no
Henry Mayer Goldfogle D-NY voted no
Michael Francis Conry D-NY voted no
Henry George Jr. D-NY voted no
Charles Andrew Talcott D-NY voted no
Luther Wright Mott R-NY voted no
Daniel Angelus Driscoll D-NY voted no
Charles Bennett Smith D-NY voted no
Edward Butterfield Vreeland R-NY voted no
John Jefferson Whitacre D-OH voted no
Leonard Paul Howland R-OH voted no
Robert Johns Bulkley D-OH voted no
Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA voted no
Robert Emmett Lee D-PA voted no
William David Blakeslee Ainey R-PA voted no
Thomas Spencer Crago R-PA voted no
Charles Henry Burke R-SD voted no
Albert Sidney Burleson D-TX voted no
Joseph Howell R-UT voted no
Michael Edmund Burke D-WI voted no
Thomas Frank Konop D-WI voted no
Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY 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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