No further remarks were made upon the resolution, and the vote was accordingly taken on the question whether it should be adopted.

States voting in the affirmative: 

  Austria-Hungary, Mexico,
  Brazil, Netherlands,
  Chili, Paraguay,
  Colombia, Russia,
  Costa Rica, San Domingo,
  France, Spain,
  Great Britain, Switzerland,
  Hawaii, Turkey,
  Italy, United States,
  Japan, Venezuela. 
  Liberia,

  States voting in the negative:  None.

  Abstained from voting: 

  Germany, Sweden. 
  Guatemala,

Ayes, 21; noes, 0; abstained, 3.

The PRESIDENT.  The resolution of the Delegate of France is, therefore, adopted.

General STRACHEY, Delegate of Great Britain.  Sir, before concluding the session to-day, I hope that the Delegates will be in a position to listen to the two resolutions which I now desire to propose, and which I think will tend to clear up a good deal of the discussion which we have had.  The first of these resolutions is as follows: 

“The Conference adopts the opinion that, for the purposes of civil life, it will be convenient to reckon time, according to the local civil time at successive meridians destributed round the earth, at time-intervals of either ten minutes, or some integral multiple of ten minutes, from the prime meridian; but that the application of this principle be left to the various nations or communities concerned by it.”

This resolution, as it stands, embraces all the practical suggestions which have been made on the subject up to the present time.  The only limitation it proposes to put upon the adoption of what may be called local standard time is that the breaks shall be at definite intervals of ten minutes or more.

The second resolution which I propose is a very simple one.  It is this: 

     “The arrangements for adopting the universal day in
     international telegraphy should be left for the
     consideration of the international telegraph congress.”

There has been established by an international arrangement a congress which meets every two years to settle questions of international telegraphy, and I think that the precise manner in which universal time may be adapted to telegraphy would very properly be left to that congress.

Mr. DE STRUVE, Delegate of Russia.  On behalf of the Delegates of Russia, I beg to make the following remarks: 

We have already expressed the opinion that the universal time could be properly used for international postal, railway, and telegraphic communications.  But it is to be understood that local or any other standard time, which is intimately connected with daily life, will necessarily be used side by side with the universal time.