The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-01
10 REACH AGREEMENT
 ON WIRELESS TELECRAPHY
DELEGATES REPRESENTING THIRTY-ONE GOVERNMENTS
 70 MEET IN BERLIN

Will Assemble Early Next Month and
 Define Bases on Which Private Wire
 less Companies May Operate With the
 Consent of Governments-COntrO
 Started After Marconi Company in
 1901 Set Up Stations for Public Pur-
 poses.
 Berlin, Sept. 30.--Delegates represent ing thirty-one governments will assem- ble here October 3, by invitation of the German government, with the object of reaching a common agreement for an exchange of messages between the users of various wireless telegraph sys- tems and to define the bases on which private wireless companies may operate with the consent of governments. The conference is a result of the Marconi company having refused to allow it's stations to do business with persons using other than Marconi apparatus.
 This controversy began after the Marconi company, in 1901, set up sta- tions for public telegraph purposes. The refusal of these stations to take messages sent by the Slaby- Arco Ger man) apparatus brought about the in- ternational wireless conference, also by invitation of Germany, in 1903. Eight governments took part-the United States, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, France, Spain, Russia and Austro-Hun- gary The delegates of six governments agreed in the final protocol to the series of recommendations that looked toward the cooperation of all users of wireless telegraphs. The delegates of Great Britain and Italy, because their gov ernments had contracts with the Mar conf company, did not sign the recom- mendations
 Little has come of these recommends tions The Marconi company has con- tinued to set up stations and to refuse the messages of rival systems. The most important act in the controversy in the interval was that of the United States government, in 1904, directing the Marconi company to remove its ap- paratus from the lightship Nantucket after requesting the Marconi company to accept messages from other compa- nies and upon refusal of the company to do this.
 Germany will propose to the confer ence that an international bureau shall be erected for the control of wireless telegraphing; that each wireless station must be, connected with the ordinary telegraphs by special lines; that the conditions under which wireless sta tions shall work of companies that do not subscribe to the conclusions of the conference shall be laid down by the conference (that is, when these stations are within the territories of states ad- herring to the conclusions of the confer ence); that governments which do not adhere to the convention may do so lat CT: and that when controversies arise over the interpretation or application of the convention they shall be submitted to arbitration. It Is believed the Unit ed States will also take this position. Great Britain and Italy are much in the same position as they were at the last conference. It is presumed here that the British delegates will in the main support the Marconi position that, as its stations and operators are the results of it's own expense and enter prise, other companies and govern ments, even without correspondingly important stations,' cannot in equity ask to benefit by the Marconi plant except by entering into such agreements with the Marconi company as may be mutu- l ally agreed upon.