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.