by the Crescent City, the Queen of the South, the city of his adoption and of his labors.
How shocked was I when on that Monday morning, coming to the House expecting to find my genial neighbor in his seat, to find that seat draped in the habiliments of mourning and to be told that Mr. Hahn was dead! Our deceased friend was a man who appears to have won the esteem of all classes, races, and conditions of his fellow-citizens. This trait of his character was strikingly illustrated at the funeral obsequies at his home in New Orleans. All classes, rich and poor, high and low, Anglo-Saxon and African, from the governor of the State and State and city officials to the humblest member of society, appeared to feel that the Commonwealth and the community of his immediate home had met with a great loss, and they all came together and mingled their tears at his bier.
Michael Hahn had the confidence of all who knew him. He was the only Representative of his political faith from his State. Yet a tribute of inestimable value was paid him in the sincere sorrow at his death shown by his colleagues from his own State, differing from him politically so radically as they do. I stood by the side of one of those gentlemen at the services held in this city, and he said Mr. Hahn had got beyond the plane of mere politics, and was a statesman who could act for what he believed to be the best interest of his State and country. He said, "Michael Hahn could always be relied upon. I always knew where to find him." What higher tribute could be paid to his worth? In this connection I may be pardoned for mentioning an incident which occurred during the earlier days of our present session, which illustrates this phase of his character, his devotion to the interests of the people he represented, and also the extreme modesty of the man and his distrust of himself and of his abilities.
We had under consideration the bill or resolution authorizing the sending of certain property of the United States to the New Orleans Exposition, a proposition which was generally opposed by his party associates. I asked him what he would do about it. His answer
