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Show CJUMNZA FAILS TO RATIFY PROTOCOL Withholds ratification of plan submitted by joint commission. Delay in Ratification Does Not Signify the Rejection of the Agreement Which Commission Signed After Due Consideration. Philadelphia. General Carranza':'. representatives on the Mexirun-Ameri I an Joint commission admitted to the American members on Monday that (he protocol Hlj;ned three weeks age l.t Atlantic City had not heen ratified jy Carranza. They supplemented that admission however, with a declaration of the at titude of the Carranza government and assured the Americans that thf delay in rat Ideation did not signify the rejection of the agreement which they had Higned after almost three Jnonlhs of consideration. The exact oharacter of the com iminicatlon from the Mexicans was not made public, hut It was evident at the close of the conference that both Am-eiicans Am-eiicans and Mexicans regarded as possible pos-sible the official sanction cf the protocol proto-col and the resumption of the session at which It lias been planned to discuss dis-cuss questions at Issue between the governments of the United States and Mexico. It was Indicated that Carranza had withheld ratification when the protocol was submitted to him by Albert J. l'aul, the commissioner who carried tho document from Atlantic City to Quaretaia, not so much because he found the terms of the agreement impossible, im-possible, as because he felt that the declaration of the United States government's gov-ernment's attitude iby Secretary of the Interior Lane, as chairman of the commission, com-mission, made it inconsistent for him 1o accept it without in turn defining the position of his government. |