It was announced on Wednesday that Lord Robert Cecil had
given the following pledge to the Marylebone Constitu- tionalUnion,—i.e., the party organisation in his constituency : "If a Unionist Government, presided over by Mr. Balfour, should be in power after the next General Election, and I, being returned for East Marylebone, with the support of the Marylebone Constitutional Union, should be unable to support the Government on the fiscal question, I will resign my seat and give my constituents an opportunity of expressing their opinion on the question, provided that I shall not consider myself bound by this pledge if a. Tariff Reform candidate is run against me at the General Election. This pledge is given on the understanding that the differences in the Union on the fiscal question.are to be treated as thereby settled."
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