House roll call 219 · 63rd Congress · Dec 9, 1914
To concur in an amendment made in committee of whole to H. R. 17869 (38 stat. 959, 3/3/1915), a bill providing that the President shall appoint an additional di
On Dec 9, 1914, the House voted 161–103 (HR 17869). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 119–68, Republicans 38–35, Others 4–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 103 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
- 161
- No
- 103
- Did not vote
- 189
- Date
- Dec 9, 1914
By party
- Democrats119 yes · 68 no · 117 didn’t vote
- Republicans38 yes · 35 no · 66 didn’t vote
- Others4 yes · 0 no · 5 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Oscar Mulkey D-AL voted no
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL voted no
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL voted no
- Christopher Columbus Harris D-AL voted no
- Oscar Wilder Underwood D-AL voted no
- John Charles Floyd D-AR voted no
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA voted no
- Joseph Russell Knowland R-CA voted no
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA voted no
- Emmett Wilson D-FL voted no
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA voted no
- Frank Park D-GA voted no
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA voted no
- William Charles Adamson D-GA voted no
- Charles Lafayette Bartlett D-GA voted no
- Gordon Lee D-GA voted no
- John Randall Walker D-GA voted no
- Dudley Mays Hughes D-GA voted no
- James William Good R-IA voted no
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID voted no
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL voted no
- James Robert Mann R-IL voted no
- James Mcandrews D-IL voted no
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL voted no
- William Elza Williams D-IL voted no
- Martin Andrew Morrison D-IN voted no
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN voted no
- William Jason Fields D-KY voted no
- Caleb Powers R-KY voted no
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA voted no
- Lewis Lovering Morgan D-LA voted no
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA voted no
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA voted no
- William Stedman Greene R-MA voted no
- Thomas Chandler Thacher D-MA voted no
- Jesse Dashiell Price D-MD voted no
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD voted no
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD voted no
- Asher Crosby Hinds R-ME voted no
- Frank Edward Guernsey R-ME voted no
- Samuel Willard Beakes D-MI voted no
- John M. C. Smith R-MI voted no
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI voted no
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI voted no
- Winfield Scott Hammond D-MN voted no
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN voted no
- Frederick Clement Stevens R-MN voted no
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO voted no
- Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison D-MS voted no
- Robert Newton Page D-NC voted no
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC voted no
- James Madison Gudger Jr. D-NC voted no
- Charles Henry Sloan R-NE voted no
- William Edgar Tuttle Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ voted no
- Edward Waterman Townsend D-NJ voted no
- Charles Andrew Talcott D-NY voted no
- John Richard Clancy D-NY voted no
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY voted no
- Henry Gold Danforth R-NY voted no
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY voted no
- Alfred Gaither Allen D-OH voted no
- Warren Gard D-OH voted no
- John Henry Goeke D-OH voted no
- James Douglass Post D-OH voted no
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH voted no
- George White D-OH voted no
- William Gordon D-OH voted no
- Robert Johns Bulkley D-OH voted no
- Claude Weaver D-OK voted no
- James Washington Logue D-PA voted no
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA voted no
- William Walton Griest R-PA voted no
- Robert Emmett Lee D-PA voted no
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA voted no
- Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA voted no
- Warren Worth Bailey D-PA voted no
- Charles Emory Patton R-PA voted no
- George Francis O'Shaunessy D-RI voted no
- Peter Goelet Gerry D-RI voted no
And 23 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- George Washington Taylor D-AL
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- John William Abercrombie D-AL
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- Samuel Mitchell Taylor D-AR
- William Shields Goodwin D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Denver Samuel Church D-CA
- William Dennison Stephens R-CA
- William Kettner D-CA
- George John Kindel D-CO
- Edward Keating 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
- Stephen Milancthon Sparkman D-FL
- Samuel Joelah Tribble D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Maurice Connolly D-IA
- Sanford Kirkpatrick D-IA
- Solomon Francis Prouty R-IA
- Frank Plowman Woods R-IA
- Frank Buchanan D-IL
- Clyde Howard Tavenner D-IL
- Stephen Arnold Hoxworth D-IL
- Claudius Ulysses Stone D-IL
- Louis Fitzhenry D-IL
- Charles Martin Borchers D-IL
- James McMahon Graham D-IL
- Martin David Foster D-IL
- Hiram Robert Fowler D-IL
- Lawrence Beaumont Stringer 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
- George Washington Rauch D-IN
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS
- Guy Tresillian Helvering D-KS
- Victor Murdock R-KS
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- Augustus Owsley Stanley D-KY
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- Harvey Helm D-KY
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- John Jacob Rogers R-MA
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA
- Frederick Simpson Deitrick D-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- John Joseph Mitchell D-MA
- Daniel John Mcgillicuddy D-ME
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff O-MI
- William Josiah Macdonald O-MI
- Patrick Henry Kelley R-MI
- Sydney Anderson R-MN
- George Ross Smith R-MN
- Charles August Lindbergh R-MN
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- James Tilghman Lloyd D-MO
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO
- Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO
- William Leo Igoe D-MO
- Michael Joseph Gill D-MO
- Walter Lewis Hensley 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
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- Samuel Andrew Witherspoon D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- Tom Stout D-MT
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Henry Thomas Helgesen R-ND
- George Morley Young R-ND
- John Arthur Maguire D-NE
- Dan Voorhees Stephens D-NE
- Silas Reynolds Barton R-NE
- Allan Bartholomew Walsh D-NJ
- Eugene Francis Kinkead D-NJ
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ
- Harvey Butler Fergusson D-NM
- Edwin Ewing Roberts R-NV
- Lathrop Brown D-NY
- James Paul Maher D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Daniel Angelus Driscoll D-NY
- Frank Bartlett Willis R-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH
- John Alexander Key D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK
- William Henry David Murray D-OK
- Abraham Walter Lafferty R-OR
- Michael Donohoe D-PA
- John Richard Farr R-PA
- John Joseph Casey D-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- Franklin Lewis Dershem D-PA
- Abraham Lincoln Keister R-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA
- Arthur Ringwalt Rupley R-PA
- Fred Ewing Lewis R-PA
- Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- David Edward Finley D-SC
- Charles Hall Dillon R-SD
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN
- Kenneth Douglas Mckellar D-TN
- Horace Worth Vaughan D-TX
- James Young D-TX
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Robert Lee Henry D-TX
- Oscar Callaway D-TX
- John Hall Stephens D-TX
- William Robert Smith D-TX
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- William Leroy La Follette R-WA
- Jacob Alexander Falconer O-WA
- James Wesley Bryan O-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- Michael Edmund Burke D-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- Irvine Luther Lenroot R-WI
- Hunter Holmes Moss Jr. R-WV
- Howard Sutherland R-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Oscar Mulkey D-AL
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL
- Christopher Columbus Harris D-AL
- Oscar Wilder Underwood D-AL
- John Charles Floyd D-AR
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- Joseph Russell Knowland R-CA
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA
- Emmett Wilson D-FL
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA
- Frank Park D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- Charles Lafayette Bartlett D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- John Randall Walker D-GA
- Dudley Mays Hughes D-GA
- James William Good R-IA
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- William Elza Williams D-IL
- Martin Andrew Morrison D-IN
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- William Jason Fields D-KY
- Caleb Powers R-KY
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- Lewis Lovering Morgan D-LA
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- Thomas Chandler Thacher D-MA
- Jesse Dashiell Price D-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD
- Asher Crosby Hinds R-ME
- Frank Edward Guernsey R-ME
- Samuel Willard Beakes D-MI
- John M. C. Smith R-MI
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Winfield Scott Hammond D-MN
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Frederick Clement Stevens R-MN
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison D-MS
- Robert Newton Page D-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- James Madison Gudger Jr. D-NC
- Charles Henry Sloan R-NE
- William Edgar Tuttle Jr. D-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- Edward Waterman Townsend D-NJ
- Charles Andrew Talcott D-NY
- John Richard Clancy D-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Henry Gold Danforth R-NY
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY
- Alfred Gaither Allen D-OH
- Warren Gard D-OH
- John Henry Goeke D-OH
- James Douglass Post D-OH
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH
- George White D-OH
- William Gordon D-OH
- Robert Johns Bulkley D-OH
- Claude Weaver D-OK
- James Washington Logue D-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- Robert Emmett Lee D-PA
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA
- Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA
- Warren Worth Bailey D-PA
- Charles Emory Patton 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
- Joseph Travis Johnson D-SC
- Charles Henry Burke R-SD
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- William Cannon Houston D-TN
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN
- Martin Dies D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- George Farmer Burgess D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Carter Glass D-VA
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA
- Frank Lester Greene R-VT
- William Ewart Humphrey R-WA
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- William Henry Stafford R-WI
- John Jacob Esch R-WI
- Samuel Brashear Avis R-WV
Did not vote
- Henry De Lamar Clayton D-AL
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- Richmond Pearson Hobson D-AL
- William Richardson D-AL
- Thaddeus Horatius Caraway D-AR
- Henderson Madison Jacoway D-AR
- William Kent I-CA
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA
- Charles Webster Bell R-CA
- Harry Hunter Seldomridge D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Frank Clark D-FL
- Claude L'Engle D-FL
- Seaborn Anderson Roddenbery D-GA
- William Schley Howard D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Thomas William Hardwick D-GA
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- Henry Vollmer D-IA
- Irvin St. Clair Pepper D-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- Horace Mann Towner R-IA
- William Raymond Green R-IA
- George Cromwell Scott R-IA
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- George Edmund Gorman D-IL
- James Thomas Mcdermott D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- Charles Marsh Thomson O-IL
- Ira Clifton Copley R-IL
- William Henry Hinebaugh O-IL
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL
- Frank Trimble O'Hair D-IL
- William Nicolas Baltz D-IL
- Robert Potter Hill D-IL
- Charles Alexander Korbly D-IN
- John Barney Peterson D-IN
- Cyrus Cline D-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Joseph Taggart D-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- John Robert Connelly D-KS
- George Arthur Neeley D-KS
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- Robert Foligny Broussard D-LA
- James Walter Elder D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- William Henry Wilder R-MA
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA
- Ernest William Roberts R-MA
- William Francis Murray D-MA
- Andrew James Peters D-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- Edward Gilmore D-MA
- James Harry Covington D-MD
- George Konig D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Frank Owens Smith D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Forrest Goodwin R-ME
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI
- Samuel William Smith R-MI
- Francis Oscar Lindquist R-MI
- Horace Olin Young R-MI
- Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN
- James Manahan R-MN
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- William Patterson Borland D-MO
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- Richard Bartholdt R-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- John Miller Faison D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- Patrick Daniel Norton R-ND
- Charles Otto Lobeck D-NE
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE
- Eugene Elliott Reed D-NH
- Raymond Bartlett Stevens D-NH
- William John Browning R-NJ
- Jacob Thompson Baker D-NJ
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ
- Archibald Chapman Hart D-NJ
- Lewis J. Martin D-NJ
- Dow Henry Drukker R-NJ
- Robert Gunn Bremner D-NJ
- Walter Irving Mccoy D-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- Denis O'Leary D-NY
- Frank Eugene Wilson D-NY
- Harry Howard Dale D-NY
- William Musgrave Calder R-NY
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Griffin D-NY
- James Henry O'Brien D-NY
- Herman August Metz D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Henry Mayer Goldfogle D-NY
- George William Loft D-NY
- Timothy Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Jefferson Monroe Levy D-NY
- Michael Francis Conry D-NY
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY
- Thomas Gedney Patten D-NY
- Walter Marion Chandler O-NY
- Francis Burton Harrison D-NY
- Jacob Aaron Cantor D-NY
- Henry George Jr. D-NY
- Henry Bruckner D-NY
- Joseph Aloysius Goulden D-NY
- Woodson Ratcliffe Oglesby D-NY
- Benjamin Irving Taylor D-NY
- Edmund Platt R-NY
- George Mcclellan D-NY
- Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck D-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- Samuel Wallin R-NY
- Edwin Albert Merritt R-NY
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY
- Edwin Stewart Underhill D-NY
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY
- Robert Henry Gittins D-NY
- Charles Mann Hamilton R-NY
- Stanley Eyre Bowdle D-OH
- Timothy Thomas Ansberry D-OH
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- Horatio Clifford Claypool D-OH
- William Graves Sharp D-OH
- William Bates Francis D-OH
- John Jefferson Whitacre D-OH
- Elsworth Raymond Bathrick D-OH
- Bird Segle Mcguire R-OK
- James Sanford Davenport D-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- Robert Edward Difenderfer D-PA
- John Hoover Rothermel D-PA
- William David Blakeslee Ainey R-PA
- Andrew R. Brodbeck D-PA
- Wooda Nicholas Carr D-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple O-PA
- Milton William Shreve R-PA
- Alexander Mitchell Palmer D-PA
- Jonathan Nicholas Langham R-PA
- Willis James Hulings O-PA
- James Francis Burke R-PA
- Andrew Jackson Barchfeld R-PA
- Anderson Howell Walters R-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- James Willard Ragsdale D-SC
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- Eben Wever Martin R-SD
- Sam Riley Sells R-TN
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- James Andrew (Jack) Beall D-TX
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- Jacob Johnson R-UT
- Joseph Howell R-UT
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- James Hay D-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- Frank Plumley R-VT
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- William Joseph Cary R-WI
- Thomas Frank Konop D-WI
- John William Davis D-WV
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- William Gay Brown Jr. D-WV
- James Anthony Hughes R-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
Other votes
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