House roll call 186 · 63rd Congress · Sep 11, 1914
To resolve the house into committee of the whole for the consideration of bills on the private calender. (p.14997-1)
On Sep 11, 1914, the House voted 176–141. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 145–71, Republicans 31–62, Others 0–8. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 102 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
- 176
- No
- 141
- Did not vote
- 136
- Date
- Sep 11, 1914
By party
- Democrats145 yes · 71 no · 88 didn’t vote
- Republicans31 yes · 62 no · 46 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 8 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Samuel Mitchell Taylor D-AR voted no
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA voted yes
- Denver Samuel Church D-CA voted no
- William Kettner D-CA voted no
- Edward Keating D-CO voted no
- Jeremiah Donovan D-CT voted no
- William Kennedy D-CT voted no
- Henry Vollmer D-IA voted no
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA voted yes
- Solomon Francis Prouty R-IA voted yes
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID voted yes
- Burton Lee French R-ID voted yes
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL voted yes
- George Edmund Gorman D-IL voted no
- James Mcandrews D-IL voted no
- Frank Buchanan D-IL voted no
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL voted yes
- Charles Martin Borchers D-IL voted no
- Hiram Robert Fowler D-IL voted no
- William Allen Cullop D-IN voted no
- William Elijah Cox D-IN voted no
- Ralph Wilbur Moss D-IN voted no
- John Alfred Adair D-IN voted no
- Martin Andrew Morrison D-IN voted no
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN voted no
- Joseph Taggart D-KS voted no
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS voted no
- Guy Tresillian Helvering D-KS voted no
- John Robert Connelly D-KS voted no
- George Arthur Neeley D-KS voted no
- Alben William Barkley D-KY voted no
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY voted no
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY voted no
- Ernest William Roberts R-MA voted yes
- William Francis Murray D-MA voted no
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA voted no
- Edward Gilmore D-MA voted no
- Thomas Chandler Thacher D-MA voted no
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD voted no
- Samuel Willard Beakes D-MI voted no
- John M. C. Smith R-MI voted yes
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI voted yes
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI voted yes
- Samuel William Smith R-MI voted yes
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI voted yes
- Frederick Clement Stevens R-MN voted yes
- Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN voted yes
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO voted no
- William Patterson Borland D-MO voted no
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS voted no
- Samuel Andrew Witherspoon D-MS voted no
- John Humphrey Small D-NC voted no
- Eugene Elliott Reed D-NH voted no
- Raymond Bartlett Stevens D-NH voted no
- Allan Bartholomew Walsh D-NJ voted no
- Dow Henry Drukker R-NJ voted yes
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ voted no
- Harvey Butler Fergusson D-NM voted no
- Denis O'Leary D-NY voted no
- James Henry O'Brien D-NY voted no
- Henry Mayer Goldfogle D-NY voted no
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY voted no
- John Francis Carew D-NY voted no
- Jacob Aaron Cantor D-NY voted no
- Edmund Platt R-NY voted yes
- George Mcclellan D-NY voted no
- Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck D-NY voted no
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY voted yes
- John Richard Clancy D-NY voted no
- Robert Henry Gittins D-NY voted no
- Stanley Eyre Bowdle D-OH voted no
- Frank Bartlett Willis R-OH voted yes
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH voted no
- John Jefferson Whitacre D-OH voted no
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted no
- James Sanford Davenport D-OK voted no
- Charles David Carter D-OK voted no
- Scott Ferris D-OK voted no
- Claude Weaver D-OK voted no
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK voted no
And 22 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- George Washington Taylor D-AL
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- William Oscar Mulkey D-AL
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL
- James Thomas Heflin 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
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- Henderson Madison Jacoway D-AR
- William Shields Goodwin D-AR
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Augustine Lonergan D-CT
- Franklin Brockson D-DE
- Frank Clark D-FL
- Emmett Wilson D-FL
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA
- Frank Park D-GA
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- William Schley Howard D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Samuel Joelah Tribble D-GA
- Thomas William Hardwick D-GA
- John Randall Walker D-GA
- Dudley Mays Hughes D-GA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- Sanford Kirkpatrick D-IA
- Solomon Francis Prouty R-IA
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- Claudius Ulysses Stone D-IL
- Louis Fitzhenry D-IL
- Frank Trimble O'Hair D-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- William Nicolas Baltz D-IL
- Martin David Foster D-IL
- William Elza Williams D-IL
- Charles Lieb D-IN
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- George Washington Rauch D-IN
- Cyrus Cline D-IN
- Augustus Owsley Stanley D-KY
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- William Jason Fields D-KY
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- Robert Foligny Broussard D-LA
- Lewis Lovering Morgan D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA
- Frederick Simpson Deitrick D-MA
- Ernest William Roberts R-MA
- John Joseph Mitchell D-MA
- James Harry Covington D-MD
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI
- John M. C. Smith R-MI
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Samuel William Smith R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Winfield Scott Hammond D-MN
- Frederick Clement Stevens R-MN
- Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN
- James Tilghman Lloyd D-MO
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO
- William Leo Igoe D-MO
- Joseph James Russell D-MO
- Perl D. Decker D-MO
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- Robert Newton Page D-NC
- James Madison Gudger Jr. D-NC
- John Arthur Maguire D-NE
- Charles Otto Lobeck D-NE
- Dan Voorhees Stephens D-NE
- Jacob Thompson Baker D-NJ
- Archibald Chapman Hart D-NJ
- Dow Henry Drukker R-NJ
- Eugene Francis Kinkead D-NJ
- Walter Irving Mccoy D-NJ
- Harry Howard Dale D-NY
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Henry Bruckner D-NY
- Joseph Aloysius Goulden D-NY
- Edmund Platt R-NY
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY
- Charles Andrew Talcott D-NY
- Daniel Angelus Driscoll D-NY
- Alfred Gaither Allen D-OH
- Warren Gard D-OH
- John Henry Goeke D-OH
- Timothy Thomas Ansberry D-OH
- James Douglass Post D-OH
- Frank Bartlett Willis R-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Horatio Clifford Claypool D-OH
- George White D-OH
- William Bates Francis D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Elsworth Raymond Bathrick D-OH
- William Gordon D-OH
- Robert Johns Bulkley D-OH
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- Robert Edward Difenderfer D-PA
- John Richard Farr R-PA
- John Joseph Casey D-PA
- Robert Emmett Lee D-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
- Arthur Ringwalt Rupley R-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- Joseph Travis Johnson D-SC
- James Willard Ragsdale D-SC
- 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
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Robert Lee Henry D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- William Robert Smith D-TX
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Joseph Howell R-UT
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- James Hay D-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- William Joseph Cary R-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- William Gay Brown Jr. D-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Samuel Mitchell Taylor D-AR
- Denver Samuel Church D-CA
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA
- Charles Webster Bell R-CA
- William Dennison Stephens R-CA
- William Kettner D-CA
- Edward Keating D-CO
- Jeremiah Donovan D-CT
- William Kennedy D-CT
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- Henry Vollmer D-IA
- James William Good R-IA
- Horace Mann Towner R-IA
- William Raymond Green R-IA
- George Cromwell Scott R-IA
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- George Edmund Gorman D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Frank Buchanan D-IL
- Charles Marsh Thomson O-IL
- Ira Clifton Copley R-IL
- William Henry Hinebaugh O-IL
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL
- Charles Martin Borchers D-IL
- Hiram Robert Fowler D-IL
- William Allen Cullop D-IN
- William Elijah Cox D-IN
- Ralph Wilbur Moss D-IN
- John Alfred Adair D-IN
- Martin Andrew Morrison D-IN
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- Joseph Taggart D-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS
- Guy Tresillian Helvering D-KS
- John Robert Connelly D-KS
- George Arthur Neeley D-KS
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA
- John Jacob Rogers R-MA
- William Francis Murray D-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- Edward Gilmore D-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- Thomas Chandler Thacher D-MA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Samuel Willard Beakes D-MI
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- William Josiah Macdonald O-MI
- Sydney Anderson R-MN
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- George Ross Smith R-MN
- Charles August Lindbergh R-MN
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- William Patterson Borland D-MO
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- Samuel Andrew Witherspoon D-MS
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- Henry Thomas Helgesen R-ND
- George Morley Young R-ND
- Patrick Daniel Norton R-ND
- 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
- Allan Bartholomew Walsh D-NJ
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ
- Harvey Butler Fergusson D-NM
- Edwin Ewing Roberts R-NV
- Denis O'Leary D-NY
- James Henry O'Brien D-NY
- Henry Mayer Goldfogle D-NY
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Walter Marion Chandler O-NY
- Jacob Aaron Cantor D-NY
- George Mcclellan D-NY
- Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck D-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- Samuel Wallin R-NY
- John Richard Clancy D-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY
- Henry Gold Danforth R-NY
- Robert Henry Gittins D-NY
- Charles Mann Hamilton R-NY
- Stanley Eyre Bowdle D-OH
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH
- John Jefferson Whitacre D-OH
- Robert Crosser 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
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- Abraham Walter Lafferty R-OR
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- Michael Donohoe D-PA
- James Washington Logue D-PA
- William David Blakeslee Ainey R-PA
- Charles Emory Patton R-PA
- Abraham Lincoln Keister R-PA
- Wooda Nicholas Carr D-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple O-PA
- Jonathan Nicholas Langham R-PA
- Willis James Hulings O-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA
- Andrew Jackson Barchfeld R-PA
- Anderson Howell Walters R-PA
- Ambrose Kennedy R-RI
- Charles Hall Dillon R-SD
- Charles Henry Burke R-SD
- William Cannon Houston D-TN
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- Oscar Callaway D-TX
- John Hall Stephens D-TX
- Jacob Johnson R-UT
- Frank Lester Greene R-VT
- Frank Plumley R-VT
- William Ewart Humphrey R-WA
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- William Leroy La Follette R-WA
- Jacob Alexander Falconer O-WA
- James Wesley Bryan O-WA
- Michael Edmund Burke D-WI
- William Henry Stafford R-WI
- John Jacob Esch R-WI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- Thomas Frank Konop D-WI
- Irvine Luther Lenroot R-WI
- Samuel Brashear Avis R-WV
Did not vote
- Henry De Lamar Clayton D-AL
- Richmond Pearson Hobson D-AL
- Christopher Columbus Harris D-AL
- William Richardson D-AL
- John Charles Floyd D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- William Kent I-CA
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- Joseph Russell Knowland R-CA
- George John Kindel D-CO
- Harry Hunter Seldomridge D-CO
- Bryan Francis Mahan D-CT
- Thomas Lawrence Reilly D-CT
- Stephen Milancthon Sparkman D-FL
- Claude L'Engle D-FL
- Seaborn Anderson Roddenbery D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- Charles Lafayette Bartlett D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Irvin St. Clair Pepper D-IA
- Maurice Connolly D-IA
- Frank Plowman Woods R-IA
- James Thomas Mcdermott D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- Clyde Howard Tavenner D-IL
- Stephen Arnold Hoxworth D-IL
- James McMahon Graham D-IL
- Robert Potter Hill D-IL
- Lawrence Beaumont Stringer D-IL
- Charles Alexander Korbly D-IN
- John Barney Peterson D-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Victor Murdock R-KS
- Harvey Helm D-KY
- Caleb Powers R-KY
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA
- James Walter Elder D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- William Henry Wilder R-MA
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA
- Andrew James Peters D-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- Jesse Dashiell Price D-MD
- George Konig D-MD
- Frank Owens Smith D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Asher Crosby Hinds R-ME
- Daniel John Mcgillicuddy D-ME
- Forrest Goodwin R-ME
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Frank Edward Guernsey R-ME
- Roy Orchard Woodruff O-MI
- Francis Oscar Lindquist R-MI
- Horace Olin Young R-MI
- Patrick Henry Kelley R-MI
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- James Manahan R-MN
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- Richard Bartholdt R-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Michael Joseph Gill D-MO
- Walter Lewis Hensley D-MO
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison D-MS
- Tom Stout D-MT
- John Miller Faison D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- William John Browning R-NJ
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ
- William Edgar Tuttle Jr. D-NJ
- Lewis J. Martin D-NJ
- Robert Gunn Bremner D-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- Edward Waterman Townsend D-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- Lathrop Brown D-NY
- Frank Eugene Wilson D-NY
- James Paul Maher D-NY
- William Musgrave Calder R-NY
- Daniel Joseph Griffin D-NY
- Herman August Metz D-NY
- George William Loft D-NY
- Timothy Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Jefferson Monroe Levy D-NY
- Michael Francis Conry D-NY
- Thomas Gedney Patten D-NY
- Francis Burton Harrison D-NY
- Henry George Jr. D-NY
- Woodson Ratcliffe Oglesby D-NY
- Benjamin Irving Taylor D-NY
- Edwin Albert Merritt R-NY
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY
- Edwin Stewart Underhill D-NY
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH
- John Alexander Key D-OH
- William Graves Sharp D-OH
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- John Hoover Rothermel D-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- Milton William Shreve R-PA
- Alexander Mitchell Palmer D-PA
- James Francis Burke R-PA
- Fred Ewing Lewis R-PA
- George Francis O'Shaunessy D-RI
- Peter Goelet Gerry D-RI
- Richard Smith Whaley D-SC
- James Francis Byrnes D-SC
- Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- David Edward Finley D-SC
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- Eben Wever Martin R-SD
- Sam Riley Sells R-TN
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN
- George Farmer Burgess D-TX
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- Carter Glass D-VA
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- John William Davis D-WV
- Hunter Holmes Moss Jr. R-WV
- James Anthony Hughes R-WV
- Howard Sutherland R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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