division_name: Election of Speaker
motion: <p>
   I beg to move, as an amendment to the Question, to leave out "Mr. Michael J. Martin" and insert instead thereof "Mr. Nicholas Winterton".
  <p> 
  
    We all know my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton). More important, the country knows him as a man of courage and integrity. When I take schoolchildren around the House and we go to the Queen's Robing room, I point out that two frescoes are missing. Two of King Arthur's knightly virtues are not portrayed on the walls. I jokingly say to the constituents that it is no surprise because they are the two virtues that are the rarest among politicians--fidelity and courage.
  <p>You choose a member indeed, but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol but he is a Member of Parliament.
  <p>The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
  <p>Question put , That the amendment be made:--
  <p>The House divided:  Ayes 116, Noes 340.
   