not when another member has the floor.

(b) Adjourn. In order to prevent an assembly

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from being kept in session an unreasonably long time, it is necessary to
have a rule limiting the time that the floor can be occupied by any one
member at one time.* [Ten minutes is allowed by these rules.] When it is
desired to close the meeting, without the member who has the floor will
yield it, the only resource is to wait till his time expires, and then a
member who gets the floor should move "to adjourn." The motion being
seconded, the chairman instantly put the question, as it allows of no
amendment or debate; and if decided in the affirmative, he says, "The
motion is carried;--this assembly stands adjourned." If the assembly
is one that will have no other meeting, instead of "adjourned," he says
"adjourned without day," or "sine die." If previously it had been
decided when they adjourned to adjourn to a particular time, then he
states that the assembly stands adjourned to that time. If the motion
to adjourn is qualified by specifying the time, as, "to adjourn to
to-morrow evening," it cannot be made when any other question is before
the assembly; like any other main motion, it can then be amended and
debated.** [For the effect of an adjournment upon unfinished business see
§ 69.]

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64. Order of Precedence of Motions. The ordinary motions rank as
follows, and any of them (except to amend) can be made while one of a
lower order is pending, but none can supersede one of a higher order: