To suspend the rules, so as to offer amendments to H.R. 12392, (app. 3/4/1925, 43 stat. L. 1313), a bill to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal y

On Feb 28, 1925, the Senate voted 18–64 (HR 12392). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 9–34, Democrats 8–32, Others 1–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 17 members voted against their own party.

During the 68th Congress (1923–1924), Calvin Coolidge was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 18
No: 64
Did not vote: 17
Date: Feb 28, 1925

By party

Democrats8 yes · 32 no · 3 didn’t vote
Republicans9 yes · 34 no · 14 didn’t vote
Others1 yes · 1 no

Who broke with their party

Thaddeus Horatius Caraway D-AR voted yes
Park Trammell D-FL voted yes
William Edgar Borah R-ID voted yes
Samuel Moffett Ralston D-IN voted yes
Arthur Capper R-KS voted yes
Charles Curtis R-KS voted yes
David Ignatius Walsh D-MA voted yes
William Morgan Butler R-MA voted yes
William Cabell Bruce D-MD voted yes
James Couzens R-MI voted yes
Thomas James Walsh D-MT voted yes
George William Norris R-NE voted yes
Frank Bartlett Willis R-OH voted yes
Jesse Houghton Metcalf R-RI voted yes
Peter Norbeck R-SD voted yes
Morris Sheppard D-TX voted yes
William Henry King D-UT voted yes

How each senator voted: Yes

How each senator voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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