| Italy, | Sweden, |
| Netherlands, | Switzerland. |
| Spain, |
The following States abstained from voting:
| Austria-Hungary, | Germany, |
| Brazil, | San Domingo, |
| France, | Turkey. |
Ayes, 14; noes, 5; abstaining, 6.
The President then announced that the resolution was adopted.
Mr. Rutherfurd, Delegate of the United States. Mr. President, I now propose to read the third resolution from the printed circular which has been furnished to the delegates. It is as follows:
"Resolved, That the Conference proposes the adoption of a universal day for all purposes for which it may be found convenient, and which shall not interfere with the use of local time where desirable. This universal day is to be a mean solar day; is to begin for all the world at the moment of midnight of the initial meridian coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian, and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours."
This resolution is somewhat complex, and in order to facilitate debate, I propose that we first occupy ourselves only with the first clause, namely:
"Resolved, That the Conference proposes the adoption of a universal day for all purposes for which it may be found convenient, and which shall not interfere with the use of local time where desirable."
After having disposed of that clause we can proceed to dispose of the other parts of the resolution.