Resolved, That as an additional mark of respect to the memory of the deceased the House, at the conclusion of these memorial proceedings, shall stand adjourned.
Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate.
Mr. Eustis. Mr. President, I offer the resolutions which I send to the desk.
The Presiding Officer. The resolutions will be read.
The Secretary read as follows:
Resolved, That the Senate receives with deep sensibility the announcement of the death of Hon. Michael Hahn, late a member of the House of Representatives from the State of Louisiana, and tenders to the family and relations of the deceased the assurance of its sympathy in their bereavement.
Resolved, That the Secretary be directed to transmit to the family of Mr. Hahn a copy of the foregoing resolution.
Address of Mr. Eustis, of Louisiana.
Mr. President, on the 14th of March, 1886, Hon. Michael Hahn, a Representative from Louisiana, died in this city. Several of his former associates in the House of Representatives have in eulogies presented in detail the important incidents of his public career. It is not necessary for me to repeat what has been so well said by those who were brought into more intimate relations with him, and I will only briefly refer to his prominent identification with some of the important events in the recent history of Louisiana to illustrate the character of the deceased and to delineate his connection with measures of national importance. When he died, the Democratic press in New Orleans united in paying a just tribute to his memory, which attested that Mr. Hahn enjoyed the respect and esteem of his political opponents. The bar and the court over which he presided as judge when he became a candidate for Congress passed resolutions expressing their profound respect for his judicial attainments and unimpeachable integrity, and as a last token of sorrow the governor, prominent
