House roll call 114 · 63rd Congress · Apr 20, 1914
To pass H. J. RES. 251 (38 stat. 770, 4/22/1914), justifying the employment by the President of the armed forces of the U.S. In enforcing certain demands made
On Apr 20, 1914, the House voted 337–37 (HJR 251). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 245–5, Republicans 84–30, Others 8–1, Independents 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 35 members voted against their own party.
During the 63rd Congress (1913–1914), Woodrow Wilson was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 337
- No
- 37
- Did not vote
- 79
- Date
- Apr 20, 1914
By party
- Democrats245 yes · 5 no · 54 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
- Republicans84 yes · 30 no · 25 didn’t vote
- Others8 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Julius Kahn R-CA voted no
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA voted no
- Charles Webster Bell R-CA voted no
- George John Kindel D-CO voted no
- James William Good R-IA voted no
- Frank Plowman Woods R-IA voted no
- Burton Lee French R-ID voted no
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL voted no
- James Robert Mann R-IL voted no
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL voted no
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS voted no
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS voted no
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA voted no
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA voted no
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI voted no
- Sydney Anderson R-MN voted no
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN voted no
- Frederick Clement Stevens R-MN voted no
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN voted no
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN voted no
- Richard Bartholdt R-MO voted no
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS voted no
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS voted no
- Samuel Andrew Witherspoon D-MS voted no
- Henry George Jr. D-NY voted no
- Edmund Platt R-NY voted no
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA voted no
- William David Blakeslee Ainey R-PA voted no
- Jonathan Nicholas Langham R-PA voted no
- Sam Riley Sells R-TN voted no
- Jacob Johnson R-UT voted no
- Joseph Howell R-UT voted no
- Albert Johnson R-WA voted no
- William Leroy La Follette R-WA voted no
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- Henry De Lamar Clayton D-AL
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- Richmond Pearson Hobson D-AL
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL
- Oscar Wilder Underwood D-AL
- John William Abercrombie D-AL
- Thaddeus Horatius Caraway D-AR
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR
- John Charles Floyd D-AR
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- Henderson Madison Jacoway D-AR
- Samuel Mitchell Taylor D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA
- Denver Samuel Church D-CA
- William Dennison Stephens R-CA
- William Kettner D-CA
- Harry Hunter Seldomridge D-CO
- Edward Keating D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Augustine Lonergan D-CT
- Bryan Francis Mahan D-CT
- Thomas Lawrence Reilly D-CT
- Jeremiah Donovan D-CT
- William Kennedy D-CT
- Franklin Brockson D-DE
- Frank Clark D-FL
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA
- Frank Park D-GA
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- William Schley Howard D-GA
- Charles Lafayette Bartlett D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Samuel Joelah Tribble D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- John Randall Walker D-GA
- Dudley Mays Hughes D-GA
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- Henry Vollmer D-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- Sanford Kirkpatrick D-IA
- Solomon Francis Prouty R-IA
- Horace Mann Towner R-IA
- George Cromwell Scott R-IA
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- George Edmund Gorman D-IL
- James Thomas Mcdermott D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Frank Buchanan D-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- Charles Marsh Thomson O-IL
- William Henry Hinebaugh O-IL
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL
- Clyde Howard Tavenner D-IL
- Claudius Ulysses Stone D-IL
- Louis Fitzhenry D-IL
- Frank Trimble O'Hair D-IL
- Charles Martin Borchers D-IL
- James McMahon Graham D-IL
- William Nicolas Baltz D-IL
- Martin David Foster D-IL
- Hiram Robert Fowler D-IL
- Robert Potter Hill D-IL
- Lawrence Beaumont Stringer D-IL
- William Elza Williams D-IL
- Charles Lieb D-IN
- William Allen Cullop D-IN
- William Elijah Cox D-IN
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN
- Ralph Wilbur Moss D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- John Alfred Adair D-IN
- Martin Andrew Morrison D-IN
- John Barney Peterson D-IN
- George Washington Rauch D-IN
- Cyrus Cline D-IN
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- Joseph Taggart D-KS
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS
- Guy Tresillian Helvering D-KS
- John Robert Connelly D-KS
- Victor Murdock R-KS
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- Harvey Helm D-KY
- William Jason Fields D-KY
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- Robert Foligny Broussard D-LA
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA
- James Walter Elder D-LA
- Lewis Lovering Morgan D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- John Jacob Rogers R-MA
- Frederick Simpson Deitrick D-MA
- Ernest William Roberts R-MA
- William Francis Murray D-MA
- Andrew James Peters D-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- John Joseph Mitchell D-MA
- Edward Gilmore D-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- Thomas Chandler Thacher D-MA
- James Harry Covington D-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Frank Owens Smith D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Asher Crosby Hinds R-ME
- Daniel John Mcgillicuddy D-ME
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI
- Samuel Willard Beakes D-MI
- John M. C. Smith R-MI
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Samuel William Smith R-MI
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff O-MI
- William Josiah Macdonald O-MI
- Patrick Henry Kelley R-MI
- Winfield Scott Hammond D-MN
- George Ross Smith R-MN
- Charles August Lindbergh R-MN
- Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN
- James Manahan R-MN
- James Tilghman Lloyd D-MO
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- William Patterson Borland D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- William Leo Igoe D-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Walter Lewis Hensley D-MO
- Joseph James Russell D-MO
- Perl D. Decker D-MO
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- John Miller Faison D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- Robert Newton Page D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- Henry Thomas Helgesen R-ND
- George Morley Young R-ND
- John Arthur Maguire D-NE
- Charles Otto Lobeck D-NE
- Dan Voorhees Stephens D-NE
- Charles Henry Sloan R-NE
- Silas Reynolds Barton R-NE
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE
- Eugene Elliott Reed D-NH
- Raymond Bartlett Stevens D-NH
- Jacob Thompson Baker D-NJ
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ
- William Edgar Tuttle Jr. D-NJ
- Archibald Chapman Hart D-NJ
- Eugene Francis Kinkead D-NJ
- Walter Irving Mccoy D-NJ
- Edward Waterman Townsend D-NJ
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- Harvey Butler Fergusson D-NM
- Edwin Ewing Roberts R-NV
- Lathrop Brown D-NY
- Denis O'Leary D-NY
- William Musgrave Calder R-NY
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Griffin D-NY
- Herman August Metz D-NY
- Henry Mayer Goldfogle D-NY
- George William Loft D-NY
- Jefferson Monroe Levy D-NY
- Michael Francis Conry D-NY
- Thomas Gedney Patten D-NY
- Walter Marion Chandler O-NY
- Jacob Aaron Cantor D-NY
- Henry Bruckner D-NY
- Woodson Ratcliffe Oglesby D-NY
- Benjamin Irving Taylor D-NY
- George Mcclellan D-NY
- Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck D-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- Samuel Wallin R-NY
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY
- Charles Andrew Talcott D-NY
- John Richard Clancy D-NY
- Edwin Stewart Underhill D-NY
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY
- Henry Gold Danforth R-NY
- Robert Henry Gittins D-NY
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY
- Charles Mann Hamilton R-NY
- Stanley Eyre Bowdle D-OH
- Alfred Gaither Allen D-OH
- Warren Gard D-OH
- John Henry Goeke D-OH
- Timothy Thomas Ansberry D-OH
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- James Douglass Post D-OH
- Frank Bartlett Willis R-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH
- Horatio Clifford Claypool D-OH
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH
- John Alexander Key D-OH
- George White D-OH
- William Bates Francis D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- John Jefferson Whitacre D-OH
- Elsworth Raymond Bathrick D-OH
- William Gordon D-OH
- Robert Johns Bulkley D-OH
- Bird Segle Mcguire R-OK
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- James Sanford Davenport D-OK
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- Claude Weaver D-OK
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK
- William Henry David Murray D-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- Abraham Walter Lafferty R-OR
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- Michael Donohoe D-PA
- James Washington Logue D-PA
- Robert Edward Difenderfer D-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- John Richard Farr R-PA
- John Joseph Casey D-PA
- Robert Emmett Lee D-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA
- Franklin Lewis Dershem D-PA
- Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA
- Warren Worth Bailey D-PA
- Andrew R. Brodbeck D-PA
- Charles Emory Patton R-PA
- Abraham Lincoln Keister R-PA
- Milton William Shreve R-PA
- Alexander Mitchell Palmer D-PA
- Willis James Hulings O-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- Andrew Jackson Barchfeld R-PA
- Anderson Howell Walters R-PA
- Arthur Ringwalt Rupley R-PA
- Fred Ewing Lewis R-PA
- George Francis O'Shaunessy D-RI
- Peter Goelet Gerry D-RI
- Ambrose Kennedy R-RI
- Richard Smith Whaley D-SC
- James Francis Byrnes D-SC
- Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- James Willard Ragsdale D-SC
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- Charles Hall Dillon R-SD
- Charles Henry Burke R-SD
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- Kenneth Douglas Mckellar D-TN
- Horace Worth Vaughan D-TX
- Martin Dies D-TX
- James Young D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- James Andrew (Jack) Beall D-TX
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- George Farmer Burgess D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Robert Lee Henry D-TX
- Oscar Callaway D-TX
- John Hall Stephens D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- William Robert Smith D-TX
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- Carter Glass D-VA
- James Hay D-VA
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- Frank Lester Greene R-VT
- Frank Plumley R-VT
- William Ewart Humphrey R-WA
- Jacob Alexander Falconer O-WA
- James Wesley Bryan O-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- Michael Edmund Burke D-WI
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- William Henry Stafford R-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- John Jacob Esch R-WI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- Thomas Frank Konop D-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- Irvine Luther Lenroot R-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- William Gay Brown Jr. D-WV
- Samuel Brashear Avis R-WV
- Howard Sutherland R-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Kent I-CA
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA
- Charles Webster Bell R-CA
- George John Kindel D-CO
- James William Good R-IA
- Frank Plowman Woods R-IA
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- Sydney Anderson R-MN
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Frederick Clement Stevens R-MN
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- Richard Bartholdt R-MO
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- Samuel Andrew Witherspoon D-MS
- Henry George Jr. D-NY
- Edmund Platt R-NY
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- William David Blakeslee Ainey R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple O-PA
- Jonathan Nicholas Langham R-PA
- Sam Riley Sells R-TN
- Jacob Johnson R-UT
- Joseph Howell R-UT
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- William Leroy La Follette R-WA
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
Did not vote
- George Washington Taylor D-AL
- William Oscar Mulkey D-AL
- Christopher Columbus Harris D-AL
- William Richardson D-AL
- William Shields Goodwin D-AR
- Joseph Russell Knowland R-CA
- Stephen Milancthon Sparkman D-FL
- Emmett Wilson D-FL
- Claude L'Engle D-FL
- Seaborn Anderson Roddenbery D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Thomas William Hardwick D-GA
- Irvin St. Clair Pepper D-IA
- Maurice Connolly D-IA
- William Raymond Green R-IA
- Ira Clifton Copley R-IL
- Stephen Arnold Hoxworth D-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- Charles Alexander Korbly D-IN
- George Arthur Neeley D-KS
- Augustus Owsley Stanley D-KY
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- Caleb Powers R-KY
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA
- William Henry Wilder R-MA
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- Jesse Dashiell Price D-MD
- George Konig D-MD
- Forrest Goodwin R-ME
- Frank Edward Guernsey R-ME
- Francis Oscar Lindquist R-MI
- Horace Olin Young R-MI
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO
- Michael Joseph Gill D-MO
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS
- Tom Stout D-MT
- James Madison Gudger Jr. D-NC
- Patrick Daniel Norton R-ND
- William John Browning R-NJ
- Allan Bartholomew Walsh D-NJ
- Lewis J. Martin D-NJ
- Dow Henry Drukker R-NJ
- Robert Gunn Bremner D-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- Frank Eugene Wilson D-NY
- Harry Howard Dale D-NY
- James Paul Maher D-NY
- James Henry O'Brien D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Timothy Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Francis Burton Harrison D-NY
- Joseph Aloysius Goulden D-NY
- Edwin Albert Merritt R-NY
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Daniel Angelus Driscoll D-NY
- William Graves Sharp D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- John Hoover Rothermel D-PA
- Wooda Nicholas Carr D-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA
- James Francis Burke R-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- Joseph Travis Johnson D-SC
- David Edward Finley D-SC
- Eben Wever Martin R-SD
- William Cannon Houston D-TN
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- William Joseph Cary R-WI
- John William Davis D-WV
- Hunter Holmes Moss Jr. R-WV
- James Anthony Hughes R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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