Note 57 — Chapter XI

House Report no. 2, 37th Congress, 2d Session, p. 390. Cummings reappears in Welles's Diary, near the close of Andrew Johnson's Administration, as a favored candidate for the office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The report of the Committee on Government Contracts had been forgotten or only vaguely remembered. Welles had a dim recollection that Cummings had a spotted record, and he warned Johnson against him. Seward indorsed him, however; said he was "a capital man for the place—no better could be found." (Diary of Gideon Wells, iii, 414.)