He did not like to refuse them.

So he made it a rule to give all of them a letter of recommendation to the Departments.

But he had an understanding with the appointing clerks that if he wrote his name Buffington with the g he desired that man should be appointed, but if he wrote it Buffinton without the g he did not wish to be taken seriously.
Beyond all question the leader of the Massachusetts delegation, and of the House, was Henry L.Dawes.

He had had a successful career at the bar and in public life before his election to Congress.

In Congress he made his way to the front very rapidly.
No member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts and few from any part of the Union had an influence which could be at all compared with his.