The Conference will not designate the system on which local time may best be reckoned so as to conform, as far as possible, to universal time; this should be determined by each nation to suit its convenience.

     The arrangements for adopting universal time for the use of
     international telegraphs will be left for regulation by the
     telegraph international congress.

This last idea was expressed, I forget now by whom, but by one of the Delegates since the Conference met, and it appears to me that inasmuch as there is an international congress specially appointed to regulate all matters of international telegraphy, this subject can be left to them with the firm belief that it will be regulated satisfactorily.

The question was then put to the vote; and upon the amendment offered by the Delegate of Italy the following States voted in the affirmative: 

Colombia,               Paraguay,
Italy,                  Spain,
Netherlands,            Sweden.

The following in the negative: 

Brazil,                 Liberia,
Chili,                  Mexico,
Costa Rica,             Russia,
France,                 Salvador,
Germany,                San Domingo,
Great Britain,          Switzerland,
Guatemala,              Turkey,
Hawaii,                 United States,
Japan,                  Venezuela.

Austria-Hungary abstained from voting.

Ayes, 6; noes, 18; abstaining, 1.

So the amendment was lost.

The question then recurred upon the original resolution.

Mr. RUTHERFURD, Delegate of the United States.  Mr. President, it has been represented to me that it may, perhaps, be found advantageous in different countries and different localities to use a time that would not be accurately described as local time.  In one place the standard of time may be strictly local time; in another place it may be national time; in another place it may be railroad time.

In order to meet this condition of things, I propose to alter the phraseology of the original resolution in this way:  by inserting the words “or other,” so that it shall read “which shall not interfere with the use of local or other time where desirable.”

Professor ADAMS, Delegate of Great Britain.  May it not be better to put it in this way:  “Which shall not interfere with the use of local or other standard time where desirable.”

Mr. RUTHERFURD, Delegate of the United States.  I accept the amendment offered by the Delegate of Great Britain.

Mr. JEAN VALERA, Delegate of Spain.  As I consider that both the amendment which was just rejected and the present proposition really signify the same thing, I shall vote for the proposition, as I before did for the amendment.

The PRESIDENT.  The question is now upon the resolution, as modified.  It will be read.

The resolution was then read, as follows: