House roll call 25 · 64th Congress · Mar 23, 1916
To amend H. R. 12766 (39 stat. 1668 june 3, 1916) a bill to increase the efficiency of the military establishment of the United States, by providing that after
On Mar 23, 1916, the House voted 203–198 (HR 12766). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 24–189, Republicans 176–10, Others 6–2, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 34 members voted against their own party.
During the 64th Congress (1915–1916), Woodrow Wilson was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 203
- No
- 198
- Did not vote
- 33
- Date
- Mar 23, 1916
By party
- Democrats24 yes · 189 no · 19 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
- Republicans176 yes · 10 no · 14 didn’t vote
- Others6 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ voted yes
- William Kettner D-CA voted yes
- Edward Keating D-CO voted yes
- James Thomas Mcdermott D-IL voted yes
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted yes
- James Mcandrews D-IL voted yes
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL voted yes
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL voted no
- Claudius Ulysses Stone D-IL voted yes
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS voted no
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY voted yes
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA voted yes
- Peter Francis Tague D-MA voted yes
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA voted yes
- Carl Chester Van Dyke D-MN voted yes
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ voted yes
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ voted yes
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ voted yes
- George William Loft D-NY voted yes
- John Francis Carew D-NY voted yes
- George Murray Hulbert D-NY voted yes
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY voted yes
- Joshua Edward Russell R-OH voted no
- Edwin Darlington Ricketts R-OH voted no
- Roscoe Conkling Mcculloch R-OH voted no
- David Adams Hollingsworth R-OH voted no
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK voted no
- Cyrus William Beales R-PA voted no
- Michael Liebel Jr. D-PA voted yes
- John Mary Morin R-PA voted no
- George Francis O'Shaunessy D-RI voted yes
- Harry Luther Gandy D-SD voted yes
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI voted no
- Thomas Frank Konop D-WI voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- William Kent I-CA
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA
- John Arthur Elston O-CA
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA
- William Dennison Stephens O-CA
- William Kettner D-CA
- Charles Bateman Timberlake R-CO
- Edward Keating D-CO
- Peter Davis Oakey R-CT
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- Ebenezer J. Hill R-CT
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- Thomas Woodnutt Miller R-DE
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- Harry Edward Hull R-IA
- Burton Erwin Sweet R-IA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- James William Good R-IA
- Christian William Ramseyer R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Horace Mann Towner R-IA
- William Raymond Green R-IA
- Frank Plowman Woods R-IA
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Robert McDowell Mccracken R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- William Warfield Wilson R-IL
- James Thomas Mcdermott D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- George Edmund Foss R-IL
- Ira Clifton Copley O-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- Edward John King R-IL
- Claudius Ulysses Stone D-IL
- John Allen Sterling R-IL
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- William Brown Mckinley R-IL
- Loren Edgar Wheeler R-IL
- William August Rodenberg R-IL
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- Burnett Mitchell Chiperfield R-IL
- Merrill Moores R-IN
- William Robert Wood R-IN
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY
- John Wesley Langley R-KY
- Caleb Powers R-KY
- Whitmell Pugh Martin O-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- 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
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA
- Ernest William Roberts R-MA
- Peter Francis Tague D-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- William Henry Carter R-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- Joseph Walsh R-MA
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- 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
- Patrick Henry Kelley R-MI
- Louis Convers Cramton R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- George Alvin Loud R-MI
- Frank Douglas Scott R-MI
- William Francis James R-MI
- Charles Archibald Nichols R-MI
- Sydney Anderson R-MN
- Franklin Fowler Ellsworth R-MN
- Charles Russell Davis R-MN
- Carl Chester Van Dyke D-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
- Thomas David Schall O-MN
- Jacob Edwin Meeker R-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Henry Thomas Helgesen R-ND
- George Morley Young R-ND
- Patrick Daniel Norton R-ND
- Charles Frank Reavis R-NE
- Charles Henry Sloan R-NE
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE
- Cyrus Adams Sulloway R-NH
- Edward Hills Wason R-NH
- William John Browning R-NJ
- Isaac Bacharach R-NJ
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ
- Elijah Cubberley Hutchinson R-NJ
- John Henry Capstick R-NJ
- Dow Henry Drukker R-NJ
- Edward Winthrop Gray R-NJ
- Richard Wayne Parker R-NJ
- Frederick Reimold Lehlbach R-NJ
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ
- Benigno Cárdenas Hernández R-NM
- Frederick Cocks Hicks R-NY
- Frederick William Rowe R-NY
- Oscar William Swift R-NY
- Reuben Locke Haskell R-NY
- George William Loft D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- Walter Marion Chandler O-NY
- Isaac Siegel R-NY
- George Murray Hulbert D-NY
- William Stiles Bennet R-NY
- James William Husted R-NY
- Edmund Platt R-NY
- Charles Bonnell Ward R-NY
- Rollin Brewster Sanford R-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- William Barclay Charles R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY
- Homer Peter Snyder R-NY
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY
- Walter Warren Magee R-NY
- Norman Judd Gould R-NY
- Harry Hayt Pratt R-NY
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY
- Henry Gold Danforth R-NY
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY
- Charles Mann Hamilton R-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Nelson Edwin Matthews R-OH
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- Seward Henry Williams R-OH
- William Crittenden Mooney R-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Henry Ivory Emerson R-OH
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- Clifton Nesmith Mcarthur R-OR
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- Peter Edward Costello R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- John Richard Farr R-PA
- Robert Douglas Heaton R-PA
- Louis Thomas Mcfadden R-PA
- Edgar Raymond Kiess R-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Aaron Shenk Kreider R-PA
- Charles Hedding Rowland R-PA
- Abraham Lincoln Keister R-PA
- Robert Freeman Hopwood R-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Michael Liebel Jr. D-PA
- Solomon Taylor North R-PA
- Samuel Henry Miller R-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- William Henry Coleman R-PA
- Daniel Franklin Lafean R-PA
- George Francis O'Shaunessy D-RI
- Walter Russell Stiness R-RI
- Ambrose Kennedy R-RI
- Charles Hall Dillon R-SD
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- Harry Luther Gandy D-SD
- Sam Riley Sells R-TN
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN
- Joseph Howell R-UT
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- Frank Lester Greene R-VT
- Porter Hinman Dale R-VT
- William Ewart Humphrey R-WA
- Lindley Hoag Hadley R-WA
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- William Leroy La Follette R-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- William Henry Stafford R-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
- Hunter Holmes Moss Jr. R-WV
- Edward Cooper R-WV
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Oscar Lee Gray D-AL
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL
- George Huddleston D-AL
- Thaddeus Horatius Caraway D-AR
- John Newton Tillman D-AR
- Henderson Madison Jacoway D-AR
- Samuel Mitchell Taylor D-AR
- William Shields Goodwin D-AR
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Denver Samuel Church D-CA
- Charles Hiram Randall O-CA
- Benjamin Clark Hilliard D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Stephen Milancthon Sparkman D-FL
- Frank Clark D-FL
- Emmett Wilson D-FL
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- Frank Park D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- William Schley Howard D-GA
- James Walter Wise D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Samuel Joelah Tribble D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Dudley Mays Hughes D-GA
- Thomas Jefferson Steele D-IA
- Frank Buchanan D-IL
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL
- Clyde Howard Tavenner D-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- Martin David Foster 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
- Ralph Wilbur Moss D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- John Alfred Adair D-IN
- George Washington Rauch D-IN
- Cyrus Cline D-IN
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Joseph Taggart D-KS
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS
- Guy Tresillian Helvering D-KS
- John Robert Connelly D-KS
- Jouett Shouse D-KS
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY
- Harvey Helm D-KY
- William Jason Fields D-KY
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA
- Lewis Lovering Morgan D-LA
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Richard Olney D-MA
- Jesse Dashiell Price D-MD
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- Daniel John Mcgillicuddy D-ME
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI
- Samuel Willard Beakes D-MI
- James Tilghman Lloyd D-MO
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- William Patterson Borland D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO
- Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO
- William Leo Igoe 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
- Benjamin Grubb Humphreys D-MS
- Thomas Upton Sisson D-MS
- William Webb Venable D-MS
- Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison D-MS
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- James William Collier D-MS
- Tom Stout D-MT
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- George Ezekial Hood D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- Robert Newton Page D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- Charles Otto Lobeck D-NE
- Dan Voorhees Stephens D-NE
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE
- Archibald Chapman Hart D-NJ
- Charles Pope Caldwell D-NY
- Joseph Vincent Flynn D-NY
- Harry Howard Dale D-NY
- James Paul Maher D-NY
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Meyer London O-NY
- Michael Francis Farley D-NY
- Michael Francis Conry D-NY
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY
- Thomas Gedney Patten D-NY
- Henry Bruckner D-NY
- Woodson Ratcliffe Oglesby D-NY
- Alfred Gaither Allen D-OH
- Warren Gard D-OH
- Joshua Edward Russell R-OH
- John Alexander Key D-OH
- Edwin Darlington Ricketts R-OH
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH
- Arthur Warren Overmyer D-OH
- Roscoe Conkling Mcculloch R-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- David Adams Hollingsworth R-OH
- William Gordon D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- James Sanford Davenport D-OK
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- William Henry David Murray D-OK
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- John Joseph Casey D-PA
- Arthur Granville Dewalt D-PA
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA
- Warren Worth Bailey D-PA
- Cyrus William Beales R-PA
- Henry Joseph Steele D-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- Richard Smith Whaley D-SC
- James Francis Byrnes D-SC
- Wyatt Aiken D-SC
- Samuel Jones Nicholls D-SC
- David Edward Finley D-SC
- James Willard Ragsdale D-SC
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- William Cannon Houston 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
- Eugene Black D-TX
- Martin Dies D-TX
- James Young D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Rufus Hardy D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- George Farmer Burgess D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Oscar Callaway D-TX
- John Hall Stephens D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- William Robert Smith D-TX
- Atkins Jefferson Mclemore D-TX
- James Harvey (Cyclone) Davis D-TX
- James Henry Mays D-UT
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- Carter Glass D-VA
- James Hay D-VA
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- Clarence Cleveland Dill D-WA
- Michael Edmund Burke D-WI
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
Did not vote
- John William Abercrombie D-AL
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- Henry Stanley Benedict R-CA
- Charles Gordon Edwards D-GA
- Tinsley White Rucker D-GA
- John Randall Walker D-GA
- Martin Andrew Morrison D-IN
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- James Jefferson Britt R-NC
- Edwin Ewing Roberts R-NV
- Daniel Joseph Griffin D-NY
- Daniel Angelus Driscoll D-NY
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH
- William Walton Griest R-PA
- Andrew Jackson Barchfeld R-PA
- John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott R-PA
- Mahlon Morris Garland R-PA
- Thomas Spencer Crago R-PA
- Paul Grier Mccorkle D-SC
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- Robert Lee Henry D-TX
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA
- William Joseph Cary R-WI
- George Meade Bowers R-WV
- William Gay Brown Jr. D-WV
- Adam Brown Littlepage D-WV
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
- Howard Sutherland R-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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Capitol Receipts, “To amend H. R. 12766 (39 stat. 1668 june 3…: House Vote, Mar 23, 1916,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/64-H-25/to-amend-h-r-12766-39-stat-1668-june (accessed 2026-10-17).