House roll call 242 · 63rd Congress · Jan 13, 1915
To pass H. R. 4899. (p.1531)
On Jan 13, 1915, the House voted 201–104 (HR 4899). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 114–97, Republicans 83–7, Others 3–0, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 104 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
- 201
- No
- 104
- Did not vote
- 148
- Date
- Jan 13, 1915
By party
- Democrats114 yes · 97 no · 93 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
- Republicans83 yes · 7 no · 49 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 0 no · 6 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL voted no
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL voted no
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL voted no
- Christopher Columbus Harris D-AL voted no
- Thaddeus Horatius Caraway D-AR voted no
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR voted no
- John Charles Floyd D-AR voted no
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR voted no
- Henderson Madison Jacoway D-AR voted no
- Samuel Mitchell Taylor D-AR voted no
- William Shields Goodwin D-AR voted no
- Franklin Brockson D-DE voted no
- Stephen Milancthon Sparkman 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
- William Schley Howard D-GA voted no
- Charles Lafayette Bartlett D-GA voted no
- Samuel Joelah Tribble D-GA voted no
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted no
- John Randall Walker D-GA voted no
- Dudley Mays Hughes D-GA voted no
- Sanford Kirkpatrick D-IA voted no
- Clyde Howard Tavenner D-IL voted no
- Claudius Ulysses Stone D-IL voted no
- Louis Fitzhenry D-IL voted no
- Frank Trimble O'Hair D-IL voted no
- Charles Martin Borchers D-IL voted no
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL voted no
- Martin David Foster D-IL voted no
- Hiram Robert Fowler D-IL voted no
- Robert Potter Hill D-IL voted no
- Lawrence Beaumont Stringer D-IL voted no
- William Elza Williams D-IL voted no
- Charles Lieb D-IN voted no
- William Allen Cullop D-IN voted no
- William Elijah Cox D-IN voted no
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN voted no
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN voted no
- Martin Andrew Morrison D-IN voted no
- Cyrus Cline D-IN voted no
- John Robert Connelly D-KS voted no
- Alben William Barkley D-KY voted no
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY voted no
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY voted no
- Harvey Helm D-KY voted no
- Robert Foligny Broussard D-LA voted no
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA voted no
- Lewis Lovering Morgan D-LA voted no
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA voted no
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD voted no
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI voted no
- Samuel William Smith R-MI voted no
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI voted no
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN voted no
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO voted no
- Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO voted no
- Walter Lewis Hensley D-MO voted no
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO voted no
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS voted no
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS voted no
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS voted no
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS voted no
- James William Collier D-MS voted no
- Claude Kitchin D-NC voted no
- Edward William Pou D-NC voted no
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC voted no
- Robert Newton Page D-NC voted no
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted no
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC voted no
- George Morley Young R-ND voted no
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH voted no
- Charles David Carter D-OK voted no
- Claude Weaver D-OK voted no
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK voted no
- Robert Emmett Lee D-PA voted no
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA voted no
- Franklin Lewis Dershem D-PA voted no
- Warren Worth Bailey D-PA voted no
And 24 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Oscar Wilder Underwood D-AL
- John William Abercrombie D-AL
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- William Kent I-CA
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- Joseph Russell Knowland R-CA
- 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
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Augustine Lonergan D-CT
- Bryan Francis Mahan D-CT
- Jeremiah Donovan D-CT
- William Kennedy D-CT
- Henry Vollmer D-IA
- Maurice Connolly D-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- James William Good R-IA
- Solomon Francis Prouty R-IA
- Horace Mann Towner R-IA
- Frank Plowman Woods R-IA
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Frank Buchanan D-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- Charles Marsh Thomson O-IL
- Ira Clifton Copley R-IL
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL
- James McMahon Graham D-IL
- William Nicolas Baltz D-IL
- Ralph Wilbur Moss D-IN
- Charles Alexander Korbly D-IN
- John Barney Peterson D-IN
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS
- Guy Tresillian Helvering D-KS
- Victor Murdock R-KS
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- William Jason Fields D-KY
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- John Jacob Rogers R-MA
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA
- Frederick Simpson Deitrick D-MA
- Ernest William Roberts R-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
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Daniel John Mcgillicuddy D-ME
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI
- Samuel Willard Beakes D-MI
- John M. C. Smith R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- William Josiah Macdonald O-MI
- Frederick Clement Stevens R-MN
- George Ross Smith R-MN
- Charles August Lindbergh R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- James Tilghman Lloyd D-MO
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- William Patterson Borland D-MO
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO
- Michael Joseph Gill D-MO
- Joseph James Russell D-MO
- Perl D. Decker D-MO
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Henry Thomas Helgesen R-ND
- Patrick Daniel Norton R-ND
- John Arthur Maguire D-NE
- Charles Otto Lobeck D-NE
- Dan Voorhees Stephens D-NE
- Charles Henry Sloan R-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
- Allan Bartholomew Walsh D-NJ
- William Edgar Tuttle Jr. D-NJ
- Archibald Chapman Hart D-NJ
- Dow Henry Drukker R-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- Harvey Butler Fergusson D-NM
- Lathrop Brown D-NY
- William Musgrave Calder R-NY
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Griffin D-NY
- Herman August Metz D-NY
- Michael Francis Conry D-NY
- Joseph Aloysius Goulden D-NY
- Edmund Platt R-NY
- Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck D-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY
- Charles Andrew Talcott D-NY
- John Richard Clancy D-NY
- Edwin Stewart Underhill D-NY
- Henry Gold Danforth R-NY
- Robert Henry Gittins D-NY
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY
- Daniel Angelus Driscoll D-NY
- Charles Mann Hamilton R-NY
- Warren Gard D-OH
- John Henry Goeke D-OH
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- John Alexander Key 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
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- James Sanford Davenport D-OK
- Scott Ferris 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
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- Michael Donohoe D-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- Robert Edward Difenderfer D-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- John Richard Farr R-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- Charles Emory Patton R-PA
- Abraham Lincoln Keister R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple O-PA
- Alexander Mitchell Palmer D-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA
- James Francis Burke R-PA
- George Francis O'Shaunessy D-RI
- Peter Goelet Gerry D-RI
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- Charles Hall Dillon R-SD
- Charles Henry Burke R-SD
- Eben Wever Martin R-SD
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN
- James Andrew (Jack) Beall D-TX
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- William Robert Smith D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Jacob Johnson R-UT
- Joseph Howell R-UT
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- Carter Glass D-VA
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- Frank Lester Greene R-VT
- Frank Plumley R-VT
- William Ewart Humphrey R-WA
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- William Leroy La Follette R-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- Michael Edmund Burke D-WI
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- William Joseph Cary 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
- William Gay Brown Jr. D-WV
- James Anthony Hughes R-WV
- Howard Sutherland R-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- Christopher Columbus Harris 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
- William Shields Goodwin D-AR
- Franklin Brockson D-DE
- Stephen Milancthon Sparkman D-FL
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA
- Frank Park D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- William Schley Howard D-GA
- Charles Lafayette Bartlett D-GA
- Samuel Joelah Tribble D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- John Randall Walker D-GA
- Dudley Mays Hughes D-GA
- Sanford Kirkpatrick D-IA
- 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
- Henry Thomas Rainey 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
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- Martin Andrew Morrison D-IN
- Cyrus Cline D-IN
- John Robert Connelly D-KS
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- Harvey Helm D-KY
- Robert Foligny Broussard D-LA
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA
- Lewis Lovering Morgan D-LA
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Edward La Rue Hamilton R-MI
- Samuel William Smith R-MI
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO
- Walter Lewis Hensley D-MO
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- Robert Newton Page D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- George Morley Young R-ND
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Claude Weaver D-OK
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK
- Robert Emmett Lee D-PA
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA
- Franklin Lewis Dershem D-PA
- Warren Worth Bailey D-PA
- Arthur Ringwalt Rupley R-PA
- Richard Smith Whaley D-SC
- James Francis Byrnes D-SC
- Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- Joseph Travis Johnson D-SC
- David Edward Finley D-SC
- James Willard Ragsdale D-SC
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- Horace Worth Vaughan D-TX
- James Young D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn 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
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA
- James Hay D-VA
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
Did not vote
- George Washington Taylor D-AL
- Henry De Lamar Clayton D-AL
- William Oscar Mulkey D-AL
- Richmond Pearson Hobson D-AL
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL
- William Richardson D-AL
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA
- George John Kindel D-CO
- Harry Hunter Seldomridge D-CO
- Thomas Lawrence Reilly D-CT
- Frank Clark D-FL
- Emmett Wilson D-FL
- Claude L'Engle D-FL
- Seaborn Anderson Roddenbery D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Thomas William Hardwick D-GA
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- Irvin St. Clair Pepper D-IA
- William Raymond Green R-IA
- George Cromwell Scott R-IA
- George Edmund Gorman D-IL
- James Thomas Mcdermott D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- William Henry Hinebaugh O-IL
- Stephen Arnold Hoxworth D-IL
- John Alfred Adair D-IN
- George Washington Rauch D-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Joseph Taggart D-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- George Arthur Neeley D-KS
- Augustus Owsley Stanley D-KY
- Caleb Powers R-KY
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- James Walter Elder D-LA
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA
- William Henry Wilder R-MA
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA
- William Francis Murray D-MA
- Andrew James Peters D-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- James Harry Covington D-MD
- Jesse Dashiell Price D-MD
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD
- George Konig D-MD
- Frank Owens Smith D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Asher Crosby Hinds R-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
- Sydney Anderson R-MN
- Winfield Scott Hammond D-MN
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN
- James Manahan R-MN
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- Richard Bartholdt R-MO
- William Leo Igoe D-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Samuel Andrew Witherspoon D-MS
- Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison D-MS
- Tom Stout D-MT
- John Miller Faison D-NC
- James Madison Gudger Jr. D-NC
- Silas Reynolds Barton R-NE
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ
- Lewis J. Martin D-NJ
- Robert Gunn Bremner D-NJ
- Eugene Francis Kinkead D-NJ
- Walter Irving Mccoy D-NJ
- Edward Waterman Townsend D-NJ
- Edwin Ewing Roberts R-NV
- Denis O'Leary D-NY
- 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
- Henry Mayer Goldfogle D-NY
- George William Loft D-NY
- Timothy Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Jefferson Monroe Levy D-NY
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY
- John Francis Carew 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
- Woodson Ratcliffe Oglesby D-NY
- Benjamin Irving Taylor D-NY
- George Mcclellan D-NY
- Samuel Wallin R-NY
- Edwin Albert Merritt R-NY
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY
- Stanley Eyre Bowdle D-OH
- Alfred Gaither Allen 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
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH
- William Graves Sharp D-OH
- John Jefferson Whitacre D-OH
- Bird Segle Mcguire R-OK
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- James Washington Logue D-PA
- John Joseph Casey D-PA
- John Hoover Rothermel D-PA
- William David Blakeslee Ainey R-PA
- Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA
- Andrew R. Brodbeck D-PA
- Wooda Nicholas Carr D-PA
- Milton William Shreve R-PA
- Jonathan Nicholas Langham R-PA
- Willis James Hulings O-PA
- Andrew Jackson Barchfeld R-PA
- Anderson Howell Walters R-PA
- Fred Ewing Lewis R-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- Ambrose Kennedy R-RI
- Sam Riley Sells R-TN
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN
- William Cannon Houston D-TN
- Kenneth Douglas Mckellar D-TN
- Martin Dies D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- Jacob Alexander Falconer O-WA
- James Wesley Bryan O-WA
- John William Davis D-WV
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Samuel Brashear Avis R-WV
- Hunter Holmes Moss Jr. R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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