House roll call 272 · 63rd Congress · Feb 24, 1915
On passage of the resolution instructing the house conferees not to agree to a Senate amendment to the bill H. R. 17869 (38 stat. 959, 3/3/1915), providing for
On Feb 24, 1915, the House voted 168–125 (HR 17869). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 73–112, Republicans 88–12, Others 7–0, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 85 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
- 168
- No
- 125
- Did not vote
- 160
- Date
- Feb 24, 1915
By party
- Democrats73 yes · 112 no · 119 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
- Republicans88 yes · 12 no · 39 didn’t vote
- Others7 yes · 0 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL voted yes
- Richmond Pearson Hobson D-AL voted yes
- John William Abercrombie D-AL voted yes
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR voted yes
- Samuel Mitchell Taylor D-AR voted yes
- John Edward Raker D-CA voted yes
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA voted no
- Denver Samuel Church D-CA voted yes
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA voted no
- Charles Webster Bell R-CA voted no
- William Kettner D-CA voted yes
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO voted yes
- Augustine Lonergan D-CT voted yes
- Samuel Joelah Tribble D-GA voted yes
- Burton Lee French R-ID voted no
- Frank Buchanan D-IL voted yes
- Clyde Howard Tavenner D-IL voted yes
- Claudius Ulysses Stone D-IL voted yes
- Charles Martin Borchers D-IL voted yes
- James McMahon Graham D-IL voted yes
- Martin David Foster D-IL voted yes
- Hiram Robert Fowler D-IL voted yes
- Lawrence Beaumont Stringer D-IL voted yes
- William Allen Cullop D-IN voted yes
- William Elijah Cox D-IN voted yes
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN voted yes
- Ralph Wilbur Moss D-IN voted yes
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN voted yes
- George Washington Rauch D-IN voted yes
- Cyrus Cline D-IN voted yes
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS voted yes
- John Robert Connelly D-KS voted yes
- George Arthur Neeley D-KS voted yes
- Alben William Barkley D-KY voted yes
- Ben Johnson D-KY voted yes
- Harvey Helm D-KY voted yes
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA voted yes
- Frederick Simpson Deitrick D-MA voted yes
- Ernest William Roberts R-MA voted no
- John Joseph Mitchell D-MA voted yes
- Edward Gilmore D-MA voted yes
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO voted yes
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO voted yes
- Perl D. Decker D-MO voted yes
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO voted yes
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS voted yes
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS voted yes
- Samuel Andrew Witherspoon D-MS voted yes
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS voted yes
- Tom Stout D-MT voted yes
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC voted yes
- John Arthur Maguire D-NE voted yes
- Dan Voorhees Stephens D-NE voted yes
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY voted yes
- James Southworth Parker R-NY voted no
- John Henry Goeke D-OH voted yes
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH voted yes
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH voted no
- William Bates Francis D-OH voted yes
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted yes
- John Jefferson Whitacre D-OH voted yes
- William Gordon D-OH voted yes
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK voted no
- James Sanford Davenport D-OK voted yes
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK voted yes
- George Scott Graham R-PA voted no
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA voted no
- Robert Edward Difenderfer D-PA voted yes
- Kenneth Douglas Mckellar D-TN voted yes
- James Young D-TX voted yes
- Rufus Hardy D-TX voted yes
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX voted yes
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX voted yes
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX voted yes
- Robert Lee Henry D-TX voted yes
- Oscar Callaway D-TX voted yes
- William Robert Smith D-TX voted yes
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX voted yes
- Joseph Howell R-UT voted no
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA voted yes
And 5 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- Richmond Pearson Hobson D-AL
- John William Abercrombie D-AL
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- Samuel Mitchell Taylor D-AR
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA
- Joseph Russell Knowland R-CA
- Denver Samuel Church D-CA
- William Dennison Stephens R-CA
- William Kettner D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Augustine Lonergan D-CT
- Samuel Joelah Tribble D-GA
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- Horace Mann Towner R-IA
- Frank Plowman Woods R-IA
- George Cromwell Scott R-IA
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- Frank Buchanan D-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-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
- 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
- William Allen Cullop D-IN
- William Elijah Cox D-IN
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN
- Ralph Wilbur Moss D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- George Washington Rauch D-IN
- Cyrus Cline D-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS
- John Robert Connelly D-KS
- George Arthur Neeley D-KS
- Victor Murdock R-KS
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- Harvey Helm D-KY
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- Caleb Powers R-KY
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA
- John Jacob Rogers R-MA
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA
- Frederick Simpson Deitrick D-MA
- John Joseph Mitchell D-MA
- Edward Gilmore D-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- Asher Crosby Hinds R-ME
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Frank Edward Guernsey R-ME
- 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
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- William Josiah Macdonald O-MI
- Patrick Henry Kelley R-MI
- Sydney Anderson R-MN
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Frederick Clement Stevens R-MN
- George Ross Smith R-MN
- Charles August Lindbergh R-MN
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- James Manahan R-MN
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO
- Perl D. Decker D-MO
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO
- Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. D-MS
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS
- Samuel Andrew Witherspoon D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- Tom Stout D-MT
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- Henry Thomas Helgesen R-ND
- George Morley Young R-ND
- Patrick Daniel Norton R-ND
- John Arthur Maguire D-NE
- Dan Voorhees Stephens D-NE
- Silas Reynolds Barton R-NE
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE
- William John Browning R-NJ
- Dow Henry Drukker R-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- Walter Marion Chandler O-NY
- Edmund Platt R-NY
- Samuel Wallin R-NY
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY
- Charles Mann Hamilton R-NY
- John Henry Goeke D-OH
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- William Bates Francis D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- John Jefferson Whitacre D-OH
- William Gordon D-OH
- James Sanford Davenport D-OK
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- Robert Edward Difenderfer D-PA
- John Richard Farr R-PA
- William David Blakeslee Ainey R-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple O-PA
- Willis James Hulings O-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly R-PA
- Anderson Howell Walters R-PA
- Ambrose Kennedy R-RI
- Charles Hall Dillon R-SD
- Charles Henry Burke R-SD
- Eben Wever Martin R-SD
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN
- Kenneth Douglas Mckellar D-TN
- James Young D-TX
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Robert Lee Henry D-TX
- Oscar Callaway D-TX
- William Robert Smith D-TX
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX
- Jacob Johnson R-UT
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- Frank Plumley R-VT
- William Ewart Humphrey R-WA
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- William Leroy La Follette R-WA
- Jacob Alexander Falconer O-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- Michael Edmund Burke D-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
- Samuel Brashear Avis R-WV
- Hunter Holmes Moss Jr. R-WV
- James Anthony Hughes R-WV
- Howard Sutherland R-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George Washington Taylor D-AL
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL
- Christopher Columbus Harris D-AL
- Oscar Wilder Underwood D-AL
- Thaddeus Horatius Caraway D-AR
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR
- John Charles Floyd D-AR
- Henderson Madison Jacoway D-AR
- William Kent I-CA
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA
- Charles Webster Bell R-CA
- 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
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Dudley Mays Hughes D-GA
- Henry Vollmer D-IA
- Maurice Connolly D-IA
- Sanford Kirkpatrick D-IA
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- Louis Fitzhenry D-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- William Nicolas Baltz D-IL
- Robert Potter Hill D-IL
- William Elza Williams D-IL
- Charles Lieb D-IN
- John Alfred Adair D-IN
- Martin Andrew Morrison D-IN
- Joseph Taggart D-KS
- Guy Tresillian Helvering D-KS
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- William Jason Fields D-KY
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- Robert Foligny Broussard D-LA
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA
- Ernest William Roberts R-MA
- Thomas Chandler Thacher D-MA
- Jesse Dashiell Price D-MD
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI
- Samuel Willard Beakes D-MI
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- William Patterson Borland D-MO
- William Leo Igoe D-MO
- Joseph James Russell D-MO
- Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison D-MS
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Robert Newton Page D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- James Madison Gudger Jr. D-NC
- Edward Waterman Townsend D-NJ
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ
- Harvey Butler Fergusson D-NM
- Lathrop Brown D-NY
- Herman August Metz D-NY
- Henry Mayer Goldfogle D-NY
- Jefferson Monroe Levy D-NY
- Thomas Gedney Patten D-NY
- Joseph Aloysius Goulden D-NY
- Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck D-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- Charles Andrew Talcott D-NY
- Edwin Stewart Underhill D-NY
- Robert Henry Gittins D-NY
- Stanley Eyre Bowdle D-OH
- Alfred Gaither Allen D-OH
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH
- Horatio Clifford Claypool D-OH
- John Alexander Key D-OH
- George White D-OH
- Robert Johns Bulkley D-OH
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- Claude Weaver D-OK
- William Henry David Murray D-OK
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- Michael Donohoe D-PA
- James Washington Logue D-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- Robert Emmett Lee D-PA
- John Hoover Rothermel D-PA
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA
- Franklin Lewis Dershem D-PA
- Warren Worth Bailey D-PA
- Andrew R. Brodbeck D-PA
- Alexander Mitchell Palmer D-PA
- Richard Smith Whaley D-SC
- James Francis Byrnes D-SC
- Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- David Edward Finley D-SC
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- James Andrew (Jack) Beall D-TX
- John Hall Stephens D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- Joseph Howell R-UT
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- James Hay D-VA
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
Did not vote
- Henry De Lamar Clayton D-AL
- William Oscar Mulkey D-AL
- William Richardson D-AL
- William Shields Goodwin D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- George John Kindel D-CO
- Harry Hunter Seldomridge D-CO
- Edward Keating D-CO
- Bryan Francis Mahan D-CT
- Thomas Lawrence Reilly D-CT
- Jeremiah Donovan D-CT
- William Kennedy D-CT
- Frank Clark D-FL
- Emmett Wilson D-FL
- Claude L'Engle D-FL
- Seaborn Anderson Roddenbery D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Thomas William Hardwick D-GA
- John Randall Walker D-GA
- Irvin St. Clair Pepper D-IA
- James William Good R-IA
- Solomon Francis Prouty R-IA
- William Raymond Green R-IA
- George Edmund Gorman D-IL
- James Thomas Mcdermott D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- Ira Clifton Copley R-IL
- Stephen Arnold Hoxworth D-IL
- Frank Trimble O'Hair D-IL
- Charles Alexander Korbly D-IN
- John Barney Peterson D-IN
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- Augustus Owsley Stanley D-KY
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- James Walter Elder D-LA
- Lewis Lovering Morgan D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- William Henry Wilder R-MA
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA
- William Francis Murray D-MA
- Andrew James Peters D-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- James Harry Covington D-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- George Konig D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Frank Owens Smith D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Daniel John Mcgillicuddy D-ME
- Forrest Goodwin R-ME
- Roy Orchard Woodruff O-MI
- Francis Oscar Lindquist R-MI
- Horace Olin Young R-MI
- Winfield Scott Hammond D-MN
- James Tilghman Lloyd D-MO
- Dorsey William Shackleford 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
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- John Miller Faison D-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- Charles Otto Lobeck D-NE
- Charles Henry Sloan R-NE
- Eugene Elliott Reed D-NH
- Raymond Bartlett Stevens D-NH
- Jacob Thompson Baker D-NJ
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ
- Allan Bartholomew Walsh D-NJ
- William Edgar Tuttle Jr. D-NJ
- Archibald Chapman Hart D-NJ
- Lewis J. Martin D-NJ
- Robert Gunn Bremner D-NJ
- Eugene Francis Kinkead D-NJ
- Walter Irving Mccoy D-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill 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
- William Musgrave Calder R-NY
- Daniel Joseph Griffin D-NY
- James Henry O'Brien D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- George William Loft D-NY
- Timothy Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Michael Francis Conry D-NY
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-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
- Edwin Albert Merritt R-NY
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY
- John Richard Clancy D-NY
- Sereno Elisha Payne R-NY
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY
- Henry Gold Danforth R-NY
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY
- Daniel Angelus Driscoll D-NY
- Warren Gard D-OH
- Timothy Thomas Ansberry D-OH
- James Douglass Post D-OH
- Frank Bartlett Willis R-OH
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH
- William Graves Sharp D-OH
- Elsworth Raymond Bathrick D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Bird Segle Mcguire R-OK
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- Abraham Walter Lafferty R-OR
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- John Joseph Casey D-PA
- Charles Emory Patton R-PA
- Abraham Lincoln Keister R-PA
- Wooda Nicholas Carr D-PA
- Milton William Shreve R-PA
- Jonathan Nicholas Langham R-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- James Francis Burke R-PA
- Andrew Jackson Barchfeld R-PA
- Arthur Ringwalt Rupley R-PA
- Fred Ewing Lewis R-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- George Francis O'Shaunessy D-RI
- Peter Goelet Gerry D-RI
- Joseph Travis Johnson D-SC
- James Willard Ragsdale D-SC
- Sam Riley Sells R-TN
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- William Cannon Houston D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN
- Horace Worth Vaughan D-TX
- Martin Dies D-TX
- George Farmer Burgess D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- Carter Glass D-VA
- Frank Lester Greene R-VT
- James Wesley Bryan O-WA
- William Joseph Cary R-WI
- John William Davis D-WV
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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