1208 . CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
Mr. Witriam L. Scorr. I move that the House adjourn. 
Mr. Herpert. | hope that motion will not carry. I desire to ask 
that there be a session to-night for the consideration of the naval 
appropriation bill. 
The question being taken on the motion to adjourn, there were— 
ayes 87, noes 46. i 
Mr. Cuarues T. O’FERRALL. I call for the yeas and nays. 
The yeas and nays were not ordered, there being—ayes 11, noes 85; 
less than one-fifth voting in the affirmative. 
So the motion to adjourn was agreed to; and accordingly (at 5 o’clock 
and 30 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned. 
February 28, 1889—House. 
The Speaker (Mr. Jonn G. Caruiste). The matter before the 
House is the motion made by the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. 
Dibble], that the House recede from its disagreement to the Senate 
amendment numbered 124. 
Mr. Samuet Dripsue. | yield five minutes to the gentleman from 
Kentucky [Mr. Breckinridge]. 
Mr. S. J. Ranpauu. I rise to a parliamentary inquiry. 
The Speaker. The gentleman will state it. 
Mr. Ranpatu. On yesterday evening, during the confusion incident 
to the close of the session, the Chair recognized, pending a demand 
made by the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Clements] for the previous 
question, the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Dibble] to make a 
motion to recede, which is equivalent to concurring. That, no doubt, 
was correctly made, and was a prior motion, because it tended to 
bring the two Houses together on legislation. But the gentleman 
from South Carolina [Mr. Dibble] took the floor and claimed the right 
to one hour for-debate. I want to direct the attention of the Chair to 
the fact that the effect of that was to take the gentleman from Georgia 
[Mr. Clements], in charge of the conference report, which he pre- 
sented, off the floor and dispossess him of control of that report when 
there had been no adverse vote by the House in so far as the control 
of that bill was concerned. 
The Speaker. The Chair thinks that it was undoubtedly correct to 
recognize the gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Dibble] for the 
purpose of making the motion to recede from the disagreement, not- 
withstanding the fact that the gentleman from Georgia had at the time 
pending a proposition insisting on the disagreement, and had demanded 
the previous question. But the Chair, upon reflection, feels disposed 
to say that the gentleman from Georgia, under the practice heretofore 
prevailing in the House, was still entitled to the floor for the purpose 
of controlling the matter, having charge of the general subject, there 
having been no adverse action, and therefore the Chair thinks that the 
gentleman from South Carolina was not then entitled, under this usage, 
