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Show GREEK MET GREEK. A Lively Little Tilt in the House Yesterday Yester-day Between Kx-Speuker Keed and .Speaker Crisp. Washington, March 5. Greek met Greek in the house yesterday, and for a few minutes min-utes a lively parliamentary colloquy was carried on between Speaker Crist) and ex-Speaker ex-Speaker Keed, over the much yexed question of "no quorum." The entire day had been consumed in a desultory consideration consider-ation of minor measures, and Mr. Kilgore of Texas moved a recess until S p. in. On a division the vote stood 85 to 84. Mr. Enloe demanded tellers, and, they being refused, raised the point that no quorum quo-rum had voted. "The gentleman from Tenuessee," said the Speaker, "makes the point of no quorum on a motion, and the chair will have to appoint ap-point tellers." Here Mr. Keed interposed with the remark: re-mark: "The gentleman does not make the point of no quorum. He makes the point that no quorum voted." "Under the rules of the house, and under the present administration of the house," said the speaker, "gentlemen are not present unless they vote." Applause on the democratic demo-cratic side. "That shows," said Mr. Reed, "that there has been a new system adopted since the last congress." "That shows that the present occupant of the chair will endeavor to enforce the rules of the house as they now exist," retorted the speaker. "Nevertheless," replied the ex speaker, "the observation 1 made is entirely correct." "Perhaps It is," said the speaker, with dignity, "hut it is simply out of order." "It is entirely correct," persisted Mr. P,eed, "and the chair had no right to make such a remark." "The chair thinks the gentleman entirely out of order," reiterated the speaker. "The point of no quorum was made by somebody else; the chair entertained the point, whereupon where-upon the gentleman from Maine made a suggestion." sug-gestion." "And thereupon," interposed Mr. Reed, "I said to the chair, that the gentleman made tile point that no quorum had voted, and the chair states it to tie a point of no quorum, which is a different proposition. I have a right to call the attention of the chair to that. The chair had no right to make such a retort, even if he was supported by disorderly disor-derly applause upon his side, which he permitted." per-mitted." "The chair will state," said the speaker, "that there is no distinction, under the present pres-ent rules of the house, between the point of no quorum and that of no quorum voting. There was a distinction between those points as under the rule, of the last congress." During the colloquy between the speaker and Mr. Keed, both gentlemen appeared to lose, in some degree, their customary equanimity, equa-nimity, and their retort were characterized by some degree of warmth. |