sentences:  Cooke hired Garfielde, in part, because he believed this would please Frederick Billings, then the head of the NP's land office.But Billings heartily disliked Garfield, accusing him of being "too much of a politician" and arguing that it was unseemly for a sitting member of Congress to engage in such blatant promotion of a specific business interest.Billings also believed that Garfielde had allied himself too closely to independent loggers who routinely stolen timber from NP forest lands.