BILLS, SECOND READING.
The second reading must regularly be on another day.--_Hakew._ 143. It
is done by the clerk at the table, who then hands it to the Speaker. The
Speaker, rising, states to the House the title of the bill, that this is
the second time of reading it, and that the question will be, Whether
it shall be committed, or engrossed and read a third time? But if the
bill came from the other House, as it always comes engrossed, he states
that the question will be, Whether it shall be read a third time? And
before he has so reported the state of the bill, no one is to speak to
it.--_Hakew._ 143, 146.
$In the Senate of the United States, the President reports the title of
the bill, that this is the second time of reading it, that it is now to
be considered as in a committee of the whole, and the question will be,
Whether it shall be read a third time? or, that it may be referred to
a special committee.$