Senate · 65th Congress · Roll call 325 · September 30, 1918

Senate rejects it

President Wilson addresses the Senate in person to urge passage as a war measure. The vote falls short of two-thirds.

Record description: To pass H.J. Res. 200.

Result

53 yea31 nayFailedTwo-thirds needed: 56 of 84

Party	Yea	Nay
Democrat	26	21
Republican	27	10

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Source: Voteview roll call record. Tallies count members recorded yea or nay; official counts printed at the time can differ slightly because of pairs and later corrections. Party labels are those used at the time.

How each senator voted

96 of 96 members

Name	Party	State	Vote
John Hollis Bankhead	Democrat	AL	Nay
Oscar Wilder Underwood	Democrat	AL	Nay
Joseph Taylor Robinson	Democrat	AR	Yea
William Fosgate Kirby	Democrat	AR	Yea
Henry Fountain Ashurst	Democrat	AZ	Yea
Marcus Aurelius Smith	Democrat	AZ	Yea
Hiram Warren Johnson	Republican	CA	Paired for
James Duval Phelan	Democrat	CA	Yea
Charles Spalding Thomas	Democrat	CO	Yea
John Franklin Shafroth	Democrat	CO	Yea
Frank Bosworth Brandegee	Republican	CT	Nay
George Payne McLean	Republican	CT	Nay
Josiah Oliver Wolcott	Democrat	DE	Nay
Willard Saulsbury Jr.	Democrat	DE	Nay
Duncan Upshaw Fletcher	Democrat	FL	Nay
Park Trammell	Democrat	FL	Nay
Hoke Smith	Democrat	GA	Nay
Thomas William Hardwick	Democrat	GA	Nay
Albert Baird Cummins	Republican	IA	Yea
William Squire Kenyon	Republican	IA	Yea
John Frost Nugent	Democrat	ID	Yea
William Edgar Borah	Republican	ID	Paired against
James Hamilton Lewis	Democrat	IL	Yea
Lawrence Yates Sherman	Republican	IL	Paired for
Harry Stewart New	Republican	IN	Yea
James Eli Watson	Republican	IN	Yea
Charles Curtis	Republican	KS	Yea
William Howard Thompson	Democrat	KS	Yea
George Brown Martin	Democrat	KY	Yea
John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham	Democrat	KY	Paired against
Joseph Eugene Ransdell	Democrat	LA	Yea
Walter Guion	Democrat	LA	Nay
Henry Cabot Lodge	Republican	MA	Nay
John Wingate Weeks	Republican	MA	Nay
John Walter Smith	Democrat	MD	Nay
Joseph Irwin France	Republican	MD	Yea
Bert Manfred Fernald	Republican	ME	Yea
Frederick Hale	Republican	ME	Nay
Charles Elroy Townsend	Republican	MI	Yea
William Alden Smith	Republican	MI	Yea
Frank Billings Kellogg	Republican	MN	Yea
Knute Nelson	Republican	MN	Yea
James Alexander Reed	Democrat	MO	Nay
Xenophon Pierce Wilfley	Democrat	MO	Paired for
James Kimble Vardaman	Democrat	MS	Yea
John Sharp Williams	Democrat	MS	Nay
Henry Lee Myers	Democrat	MT	Yea
Thomas James Walsh	Democrat	MT	Yea
Furnifold McLendel Simmons	Democrat	NC	Nay
Lee Slater Overman	Democrat	NC	Nay
Asle Jorgenson Gronna	Republican	ND	Yea
Porter James McCumber	Republican	ND	Yea
George William Norris	Republican	NE	Yea
Gilbert Monell Hitchcock	Democrat	NE	Nay
Henry French Hollis	Democrat	NH	Paired for
Irving Webster Drew	Republican	NH	Nay
David Baird	Republican	NJ	Nay
Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen	Republican	NJ	Paired for
Albert Bacon Fall	Republican	NM	Paired for
Andrieus Aristieus Jones	Democrat	NM	Nay
Charles Belknap Henderson	Democrat	NV	Yea
Key Pittman	Democrat	NV	Yea
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.	Republican	NY	Nay
William Musgrave Calder	Republican	NY	Yea
Atlee Pomerene	Democrat	OH	Nay
Warren Gamaliel Harding	Republican	OH	Paired for
Robert Latham Owen	Democrat	OK	Yea
Thomas Pryor Gore	Democrat	OK	Yea
Charles Linza McNary	Republican	OR	Yea
George Earle Chamberlain	Democrat	OR	Yea
Boies Penrose	Republican	PA	Nay
Philander Chase Knox	Republican	PA	Paired against
LeBaron Bradford Colt	Republican	RI	Yea
Peter Goelet Gerry	Democrat	RI	Yea
Christie Benet	Democrat	SC	Nay
Ellison DuRant Smith	Democrat	SC	Nay
Edwin Stockton Johnson	Democrat	SD	Yea
Thomas Sterling	Republican	SD	Yea
John Knight Shields	Democrat	TN	Nay
Kenneth Douglas McKellar	Democrat	TN	Yea
Charles Allen Culberson	Democrat	TX	Yea
Morris Sheppard	Democrat	TX	Yea
Reed Smoot	Republican	UT	Yea
William Henry King	Democrat	UT	Did not vote
Claude Augustus Swanson	Democrat	VA	Paired against
Thomas Staples Martin	Democrat	VA	Nay
Carroll Smalley Page	Republican	VT	Yea
William Paul Dillingham	Republican	VT	Nay
Miles Poindexter	Republican	WA	Yea
Wesley Livsey Jones	Republican	WA	Yea
Irvine Luther Lenroot	Republican	WI	Yea
Robert Marion La Follette	Republican	WI	Yea
Howard Sutherland	Republican	WV	Yea
Nathan Goff	Republican	WV	Yea
Francis Emroy Warren	Republican	WY	Yea
John Benjamin Kendrick	Democrat	WY	Yea

Names link to each member's official biography in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.