House roll call 122 · 65th Congress · Apr 12, 1918
To amend S. J. RES. 123, (40 stat-554, may 16, 1918), providing for the induction into military service of certain persons registered under the draft act of may
On Apr 12, 1918, the House voted 118–243 (SJR 123). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 104–80, Republicans 14–165, Others 3–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 94 members voted against their own party.
During the 65th Congress (1917–1918), Woodrow Wilson was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 118
- No
- 243
- Did not vote
- 87
- Date
- Apr 12, 1918
By party
- Democrats104 yes · 80 no · 42 didn’t vote
- Republicans14 yes · 165 no · 44 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 2 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted no
- John Edward Raker D-CA voted no
- Augustine Lonergan D-CT voted no
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL voted no
- Harry Edward Hull R-IA voted yes
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted no
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL voted yes
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL voted no
- Loren Edgar Wheeler R-IL voted yes
- Martin David Foster D-IL voted no
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL voted yes
- George Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN voted no
- William Elijah Cox D-IN voted no
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN voted no
- Edward Campbell Little R-KS voted yes
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS voted no
- Alben William Barkley D-KY voted no
- Joseph Swagar Sherley D-KY voted no
- James Campbell Cantrill D-KY voted no
- William Jason Fields D-KY voted no
- Henry Garland Dupré D-LA voted no
- Ladislas Lazaro D-LA voted no
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA voted no
- Peter Francis Tague D-MA voted no
- Richard Olney D-MA voted no
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD voted no
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD voted no
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD voted no
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI voted no
- Samuel Willard Beakes D-MI voted no
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO voted no
- William Waller Rucker D-MO voted no
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO voted no
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO voted no
- William Leo Igoe D-MO voted no
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO voted no
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS voted no
- John Morgan Evans D-MT voted no
- John Humphrey Small D-NC voted no
- Edward William Pou D-NC voted no
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC voted no
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted no
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC voted no
- Charles Henry Sloan R-NE voted yes
- Thomas Joseph Scully D-NJ voted no
- John Joseph Eagan D-NJ voted no
- James Alphonsus Hamill D-NJ voted no
- William Bell Walton D-NM voted no
- Edwin Ewing Roberts R-NV voted yes
- Charles Pope Caldwell D-NY voted no
- Harry Howard Dale D-NY voted no
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY voted no
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY voted no
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY voted no
- Daniel Charles Oliver D-NY voted no
- George Richard Lunn D-NY voted no
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY voted no
- Warren Gard D-OH voted no
- Benjamin Franklin Welty D-OH voted no
- John Stout Snook D-OH voted no
- John Alexander Key D-OH voted no
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH voted no
- Arthur Warren Overmyer D-OH voted no
- George White D-OH voted no
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted no
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted no
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK voted no
- Scott Ferris D-OK voted no
- Bruce Foster Sterling D-PA voted no
- Henry Joseph Steele D-PA voted no
- Earl Hanley Beshlin D-PA voted no
- Guy Edgar Campbell D-PA voted no
- George Francis O'Shaunessy D-RI voted no
- Sam Riley Sells R-TN voted yes
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN voted yes
- Cordell Hull D-TN voted no
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN voted no
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN voted no
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN voted no
- Finis James Garrett D-TN voted no
And 14 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Oscar Lee Gray D-AL
- Stanley Hubert Dent Jr. D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Fred Leonard Blackmon D-AL
- William Bacon Oliver D-AL
- John Lawson Burnett D-AL
- Edward Berton Almon D-AL
- George Huddleston D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- Thaddeus Horatius Caraway D-AR
- William Allan Oldfield D-AR
- John Newton Tillman D-AR
- Otis Theodore Wingo D-AR
- Henderson Madison Jacoway D-AR
- Samuel Mitchell Taylor D-AR
- William Shields Goodwin D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- Denver Samuel Church D-CA
- Charles Hiram Randall O-CA
- Benjamin Clark Hilliard D-CO
- Edward Keating D-CO
- Albert Fawcett Polk D-DE
- Frank Clark D-FL
- James Walter Kehoe D-FL
- James Whetstone Overstreet D-GA
- Frank Park D-GA
- Charles Robert Crisp D-GA
- William Carter Wright D-GA
- William Schley Howard D-GA
- James Walter Wise D-GA
- Gordon Lee D-GA
- Charles Hillyer Brand D-GA
- Thomas Montgomery Bell D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- John Randall Walker D-GA
- William Washington Larsen D-GA
- Harry Edward Hull R-IA
- Joseph Gurney Cannon R-IL
- Loren Edgar Wheeler R-IL
- Thomas Sutler Williams R-IL
- Henry A. Barnhart D-IN
- Edward Campbell Little R-KS
- Guy Tresillian Helvering D-KS
- John Robert Connelly D-KS
- Jouett Shouse D-KS
- William Augustus Ayres D-KS
- David Hayes Kincheloe D-KY
- Robert Young Thomas Jr. D-KY
- Ben Johnson D-KY
- Arthur Blythe Rouse D-KY
- Harvey Helm D-KY
- Albert Estopinal D-LA
- Whitmell Pugh Martin O-LA
- John Thomas Watkins D-LA
- Riley Joseph Wilson D-LA
- Jared Young Sanders D-LA
- James Benjamin Aswell D-LA
- Jesse Dashiell Price D-MD
- Carl Chester Van Dyke D-MN
- Joshua Willis Alexander D-MO
- Charles Ferris Booher D-MO
- Dorsey William Shackleford D-MO
- Joseph James Russell 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
- James William Collier D-MS
- Claude Kitchin D-NC
- Leonidas Dunlap Robinson D-NC
- Edwin Yates Webb D-NC
- Charles Otto Lobeck D-NE
- Charles Henry Sloan R-NE
- Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger D-NE
- Edwin Ewing Roberts R-NV
- Meyer London O-NY
- Anthony Jerome Griffin D-NY
- Isaac R. Sherwood D-OH
- Horatio Clifford Claypool D-OH
- William Gordon D-OH
- Charles David Carter D-OK
- Thomas Deitz Mckeown D-OK
- Joseph Bryan Thompson D-OK
- Arthur Granville Dewalt D-PA
- John Vandling Lesher D-PA
- Andrew R. Brodbeck D-PA
- Richard Smith Whaley D-SC
- Frederick Haskell Dominick D-SC
- Samuel Jones Nicholls D-SC
- William Francis Stevenson D-SC
- James Willard Ragsdale D-SC
- Asbury Francis Lever D-SC
- Sam Riley Sells R-TN
- Richard Wilson Austin R-TN
- William Cannon Houston 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
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX
- James Clifton Wilson D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX
- Milton Holmes Welling D-UT
- James Henry Mays D-UT
- Edward Everett Holland D-VA
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Walter Allen Watson D-VA
- Edward Watts Saunders D-VA
- Thomas Walter Harrison D-VA
- Charles Creighton Carlin D-VA
- Campbell Bascom Slemp R-VA
- William Leroy La Follette R-WA
- Clarence Cleveland Dill D-WA
- William Joseph Cary R-WI
- William Henry Stafford R-WI
- Frank Wheeler Mondell R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- John Edward Raker D-CA
- Julius Kahn R-CA
- John Ignatius Nolan R-CA
- John Arthur Elston R-CA
- Everis Anson Hayes R-CA
- Henry Zenas Osborne R-CA
- Charles Bateman Timberlake R-CO
- Augustine Lonergan D-CT
- Richard Patrick Freeman R-CT
- John Quillin Tilson R-CT
- Schuyler Merritt R-CT
- James Peter Glynn R-CT
- Herbert Jackson Drane D-FL
- Charles Augustus Kennedy R-IA
- Burton Erwin Sweet R-IA
- James William Good R-IA
- Christian William Ramseyer R-IA
- William Raymond Green R-IA
- Frank Plowman Woods R-IA
- Addison Taylor Smith R-ID
- Burton Lee French R-ID
- Martin Barnaby Madden R-IL
- William Warfield Wilson R-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Frederick Albert Britten R-IL
- Ira Clifton Copley R-IL
- Charles Eugene Fuller R-IL
- John Charles Mckenzie R-IL
- William Johnson Graham R-IL
- Clifford Cady Ireland R-IL
- John Allen Sterling R-IL
- William Brown Mckinley R-IL
- Henry Thomas Rainey D-IL
- William August Rodenberg R-IL
- Martin David Foster D-IL
- Edward Everett Denison R-IL
- Joseph Medill Mccormick R-IL
- William Ernest Mason R-IL
- George Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Oscar Edward Bland R-IN
- William Elijah Cox D-IN
- Lincoln Dixon D-IN
- Everett Sanders R-IN
- Richard Nash Elliott R-IN
- Merrill Moores R-IN
- Albert Henry Vestal R-IN
- Fred Sampson Purnell R-IN
- Milton Kraus R-IN
- Louis William Fairfield R-IN
- Daniel Read Anthony Jr. R-KS
- Philip Pitt Campbell R-KS
- Dudley Doolittle D-KS
- Alben William Barkley 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
- Calvin DeWitt Paige R-MA
- Samuel Ellsworth Winslow R-MA
- John Jacob Rogers R-MA
- Willfred Weymouth Lufkin R-MA
- Michael Francis Phelan D-MA
- Frederick William Dallinger R-MA
- Alvan Tufts Fuller O-MA
- Peter Francis Tague D-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- William Henry Carter R-MA
- Richard Olney D-MA
- William Stedman Greene R-MA
- Joseph Walsh R-MA
- Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott D-MD
- Charles Pearce Coady D-MD
- John Charles Linthicum D-MD
- Sydney Emanuel Mudd R-MD
- Frederick Nicholas Zihlman R-MD
- Louis Bertrand Goodall R-ME
- Wallace Humphrey White Jr. R-ME
- John Andrew Peters R-ME
- Ira Greenlief Hersey R-ME
- Frank Ellsworth Doremus D-MI
- Samuel Willard Beakes D-MI
- 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
- Joseph Warren Fordney R-MI
- James Campbell Mclaughlin R-MI
- Gilbert Archibald Currie 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
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Clarence Benjamin Miller R-MN
- Halvor Steenerson R-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Waller Rucker D-MO
- Clement Cabell Dickinson D-MO
- Courtney Walker Hamlin D-MO
- Jacob Edwin Meeker R-MO
- William Leo Igoe D-MO
- Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer R-MO
- Thomas Lewis Rubey D-MO
- Percy Edwards Quin D-MS
- Jeannette Rankin R-MT
- John Morgan Evans D-MT
- John Humphrey Small D-NC
- Edward William Pou D-NC
- Charles Manly Stedman D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- John Miller Baer R-ND
- George Morley Young R-ND
- Charles Frank Reavis R-NE
- Moses Pierce Kinkaid R-NE
- Sherman Everett Burroughs 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
- 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
- William Bell Walton D-NM
- Charles Pope Caldwell D-NY
- Harry Howard Dale D-NY
- Frederick William Rowe R-NY
- Oscar William Swift R-NY
- Reuben Locke Haskell R-NY
- Daniel Joseph Riordan D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- Peter Joseph Dooling D-NY
- George Blinn Francis R-NY
- Walter Marion Chandler R-NY
- Isaac Siegel R-NY
- Daniel Charles Oliver D-NY
- Benjamin Lewis Fairchild R-NY
- James William Husted R-NY
- Edmund Platt R-NY
- Charles Bonnell Ward R-NY
- Rollin Brewster Sanford R-NY
- George Richard Lunn D-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Luther Wright Mott R-NY
- George Winthrop Fairchild R-NY
- Walter Warren Magee R-NY
- Norman Judd Gould R-NY
- Harry Hayt Pratt R-NY
- Stephen Wallace Dempsey R-NY
- Charles Bennett Smith D-NY
- William Frederick Waldow R-NY
- Nicholas Longworth R-OH
- Warren Gard D-OH
- Benjamin Franklin Welty D-OH
- John Stout Snook D-OH
- Charles Cyrus Kearns R-OH
- John Alexander Key D-OH
- Robert Mauck Switzer R-OH
- Clement Laird Brumbaugh D-OH
- Arthur Warren Overmyer D-OH
- George White D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- John Gordon Cooper R-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Henry Ivory Emerson R-OH
- Thomas Alberter Chandler R-OK
- William Wirt Hastings D-OK
- Scott Ferris D-OK
- Dick Thompson Morgan R-OK
- Willis Chatman Hawley R-OR
- Nicholas John Sinnott R-OR
- Clifton Nesmith Mcarthur R-OR
- William Scott Vare R-PA
- Joseph Hampton Moore R-PA
- George Washington Edmonds R-PA
- George Potter Darrow R-PA
- Thomas Stalker Butler R-PA
- Henry Winfield Watson R-PA
- William Walton Griest 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
- John Marshall Rose R-PA
- Edward Everett Robbins R-PA
- Bruce Foster Sterling D-PA
- Henry Wilson Temple R-PA
- Henry Alden Clark R-PA
- Henry Joseph Steele D-PA
- Nathan Leroy Strong R-PA
- Earl Hanley Beshlin D-PA
- Stephen Geyer Porter R-PA
- Melville Clyde Kelly O-PA
- John Mary Morin R-PA
- Guy Edgar Campbell D-PA
- John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott R-PA
- Joseph Mclaughlin R-PA
- Mahlon Morris Garland R-PA
- Thomas Spencer Crago R-PA
- George Francis O'Shaunessy D-RI
- Walter Russell Stiness R-RI
- Ambrose Kennedy R-RI
- Charles Hall Dillon R-SD
- Cordell Hull D-TN
- Joseph Wellington Byrns D-TN
- Lemuel Phillips Padgett D-TN
- Thetus Willrette Sims D-TN
- Finis James Garrett D-TN
- Hubert Frederick Fisher D-TN
- Alexander White Gregg D-TX
- Joe Henry Eagle D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- James Luther Slayden D-TX
- John Nance Garner D-TX
- Daniel Edward Garrett D-TX
- Carter Glass D-VA
- Frank Lester Greene R-VT
- Porter Hinman Dale R-VT
- Lindley Hoag Hadley R-WA
- Albert Johnson R-WA
- Henry Allen Cooper R-WI
- Edward Voigt R-WI
- John Mandt Nelson R-WI
- James Henry Davidson R-WI
- John Jacob Esch R-WI
- Edward Everts Browne R-WI
- David Guy Classon R-WI
- James Archibald Frear R-WI
- Irvine Luther Lenroot R-WI
- George Meade Bowers R-WV
- Stuart Felix Reed R-WV
- Harry Chapman Woodyard R-WV
- Edward Cooper R-WV
- Adam Brown Littlepage D-WV
Did not vote
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- Charles Forrest Curry R-CA
- William Kettner D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Ebenezer J. Hill R-CT
- William Joseph Sears D-FL
- William Charles Adamson D-GA
- Gilbert Nelson Haugen R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Horace Mann Towner R-IA
- George Cromwell Scott R-IA
- James Robert Mann R-IL
- Charles Martin D-IL
- John William Rainey D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Niels Juul R-IL
- Thomas Gallagher D-IL
- George Edmund Foss R-IL
- Edward John King R-IL
- Daniel Webster Comstock R-IN
- William Robert Wood R-IN
- Caleb Powers R-KY
- Augustus Peabody Gardner R-MA
- James Ambrose Gallivan D-MA
- Carville Dickinson Benson D-MD
- Mark Reeves Bacon R-MI
- Ernest Lundeen R-MN
- Andrew John Volstead R-MN
- Thomas David Schall O-MN
- William Patterson Borland D-MO
- James Beauchamp (Champ) Clark D-MO
- Frederick Essen R-MO
- Walter Lewis Hensley D-MO
- Perl D. Decker D-MO
- Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison D-MS
- George Ezekial Hood D-NC
- Hannibal Lafayette Godwin D-NC
- James Jefferson Britt R-NC
- Henry Thomas Helgesen R-ND
- Patrick Daniel Norton R-ND
- Dan Voorhees Stephens D-NE
- John Henry Capstick R-NJ
- William Fred Birch R-NJ
- John Rathbone Ramsey R-NJ
- Dow Henry Drukker R-NJ
- Frederick Cocks Hicks R-NY
- Joseph Vincent Flynn D-NY
- James Paul Maher D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- John Joseph Fitzgerald D-NY
- Daniel Joseph Griffin D-NY
- William Edward Cleary D-NY
- Fiorello Henry La Guardia R-NY
- Thomas Francis Smith D-NY
- John Francis Carew D-NY
- George Murray Hulbert D-NY
- Jerome Francis Donovan D-NY
- Henry Bruckner D-NY
- James Southworth Parker R-NY
- Homer Peter Snyder R-NY
- Thomas Byrne Dunn R-NY
- Archie Dovell Sanders R-NY
- Charles Mann Hamilton R-NY
- Victor Heintz R-OH
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- Elsworth Raymond Bathrick D-OH
- Martin Luther Davey D-OH
- Roscoe Conkling Mcculloch R-OH
- David Adams Hollingsworth R-OH
- James Vernon Mcclintic D-OK
- George Scott Graham R-PA
- Peter Edward Costello R-PA
- Thomas Weir Templeton R-PA
- Charles Hedding Rowland R-PA
- James Francis Byrnes D-SC
- Royal Cleaves Johnson R-SD
- Harry Luther Gandy D-SD
- John Austin Moon D-TN
- Atkins Jefferson Mclemore D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- William Atkinson Jones D-VA
- James Pleasant Woods D-VA
- Henry De La Warr Flood D-VA
- John Franklin Miller R-WA
- Florian Lampert R-WI
- Adolphus Peter Nelson R-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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