Things went no further than this, however, during the year 1863, the military situation requiring the whole thought and activity of the Government. On the 8th of January, 1864, however, a convention was held at New Orleans for the purpose of advancing the work of reconstruction. This convention requested General Banks to appoint an election for officers of the "State" government. The General complied, naming the 22d day of February following for the election, and the 4th of March for the installation of the officers so chosen. Mr. Hahn was elected and duly installed Governor, and was soon after declared by the President to be "invested, until further orders, with the powers hitherto exercised by the Military Governor of Louisiana." The next step was for the new Governor to order an election of delegates to a constitutional convention and the assembly of {15} the same in convention, for the purpose of so amending and revising the constitution as to make it fit the new conditions created by the war. This was done in March and April of 1864, and an anti-slavery constitution was established for Louisiana. The instrument drafted and proposed by the convention was adopted by the voters. Eight thousand four hundred and two votes were cast upon the question of adoption, about sixteen per centum of the vote cast at the Presidential election of 1860. This brought the action of the voters within the President's ten per centum rule. The vote was almost five to one in favor of adoption. The President's scheme was now put to the practical test, both in Louisiana and Arkansas, during the spring of 1864. [Sidenote: The beginning of resistance in Congress to the President's plan.] [Sidenote: The Wade-Davis bill.]