Show CARH fails TO PROTOCOL WITHHOLDS ratification OF PLAN SUBMITTED BY JOINT commission delay in ratification doe does not signify the rejection of the agreement which commission signed after due consideration philadelphia general representatives on the mexican ameri can joint commission comm lealon admitted to the american members on monday Ni that the protocol signed three weeks ago at atlantic city bad had not been ratified by carranza they supplemented that admission however with a declaration ot of the at of the carranza government and assured the americans that the delay in ratification did not signify the rejection of 0 the agreement which they bad signed after almost three months of the exact character of the corn com muni cation from the ale mexican ricans as not made ma de public but it was evident at the close of the conference that both am and mexicans regarded aa as po bible the he clat auction sanction of the protocol and the of the neslon at which it his has bien planned to dis din cuss aa questions at issue between the governments of the united states and mexico it was wa that carranza bad withheld withhold ratification when the protocol was submitted to him by albert 1 I paul the commissioner who ho tarried carried the domi document nent from atlantic city to Quare tara not so much because he foaud the terms of the agreement im possible as because he felt that the of 0 the united states ROT goy orn ornament ment ent a attitude by secretary of the interior lane aa as chairman of the corn com mission made it inconsistent for him to accept kept it without in turn denning defining the position of his government |