.

The vote was then taken upon the resolution of the Delegate of the
United States, Mr. RUTHERFURD, which is as follows:

"_Resolved_, That from this meridian (_id est_, Greenwich)
longitude shall be counted in two directions up to 180
degrees, east longitude being plus and west longitude
minus."

The following States voted in the affirmative:

Chili, Liberia,
Colombia, Mexico,
Costa Rica, Paraguay,
Great Britain, Russia,
Guatemala, Salvador,
Hawaii, United States,
Japan, Venezuela.

The following States voted in the negative:

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.

The PRESIDENT. You propose, then, to divide the resolution as printed
in the circular into two resolutions, and you now offer the first part
for consideration.

Mr. RUTHERFURD, Delegate of the United States. If that is the more
convenient form of putting it, it