To recommit with instructions to the committee on appropriations the fortifications appropriation bill H. R. 21491 (38 stat. 887, 3/3/1915), so it will be amend

On Feb 23, 1915, the House voted 39–219 (HR 21491). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 5–162, Republicans 31–55, Others 3–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 36 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: 39
No: 219
Did not vote: 195
Date: Feb 23, 1915

By party

Democrats5 yes · 162 no · 137 didn’t vote
Republicans31 yes · 55 no · 53 didn’t vote
Others3 yes · 2 no · 4 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Richmond Pearson Hobson D-AL voted yes
John Ignatius Nolan R-CA voted yes
Joseph Russell Knowland R-CA voted yes
Horace Mann Towner R-IA voted yes
Frederick Albert Britten R-IL voted yes
Victor Murdock R-KS voted yes
Caleb Powers R-KY voted yes
Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA voted yes
John Jacob Rogers R-MA voted yes
Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA voted yes
Frederick Simpson Deitrick D-MA voted yes
Andrew James Peters D-MA voted yes
William Stedman Greene R-MA voted yes
Asher Crosby Hinds R-ME voted yes
Frank Edward Guernsey R-ME voted yes
Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN voted yes
Henry Thomas Helgesen R-ND voted yes
Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ voted yes
Edmund Platt R-NY voted yes
Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck D-NY voted yes
Luther Wright Mott R-NY voted yes
Henry Gold Danforth R-NY voted yes
Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR voted yes
Michael Donohoe D-PA voted yes
John Richard Farr R-PA voted yes
Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA voted yes
Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA voted yes
Charles Emory Patton R-PA voted yes
Milton William Shreve R-PA voted yes
Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA voted yes
Jacob Johnson R-UT voted yes
Frank Lester Greene R-VT voted yes
Frank Plumley R-VT voted yes
Albert Johnson R-WA voted yes
William Leroy La Follette R-WA voted yes
Howard Sutherland R-WV voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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Capitol Receipts, “To recommit with instructions to the…: House Vote, Feb 23, 1915,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/63-H-270/to-recommit-with-instructions-to-the-committee-on-appropriations (accessed 2026-10-17).