Show e Tho chair said it could not entertain enter-tain Congers motion and Conger appealed ap-pealed Blount moved to table the appeal and republicans refused to vote leaving leav-ing the House without a quorum The vote stood yeas 140 nays 5 the latter being Springer Gillette Lowe March and Weaver No quorum A call disclosed tbo presence of 258 members and all proceedings under the call having been dispensed with the question recurred on a motion to table the appeal from the Speakers II decision and again no quorum Toted At 4 oclock after half a dozen roll calls the House found itself in exactly ex-actly the eame situation in which it had been three hours previously or as Reagan expressed it The House merely went up the hill and then came down again The tactics of the republican side were to answer to their names on the call of the House but to remain silent upon a motion to table an appeal thus leaving tbe House without a quorum and forcing a call of the House A motion to adjourn was defeated I yeas 127 nays 129 I Another call of the House was ordered or-dered and then the House adjurned |