The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-14
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Sunset Cox's Health the Cause of His
Not Wanting the Ways and Means
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From he NeiC York World

From the Ne,c York World.
WASHINGTON, Jan. l0-Sunset Cox
writes that the stories already published
about his declining a position on the Ways
and Means Committee are chiefly made up
of tiOs and of tictions, and that the real rea-
son why he did not want the position is be-
cause he feared it might break down his
health. He was, it will be remembered,
quite i'll before he went to Turkey, and he
accepted the mission thinking that it would
benefit him. He accomplished wonderful
amount of work in the Orient and came
back much better. He is so constituted
that he cannot help working, and his only
hope for a long life is to keep in places
where he will not be crowded. His position
on the Committee on Territories is almost
as important as the one on the Tariff, and
the probability is that this committee will
accomplish greater results. He has good
stenographer, however, and, what is more,
wife who saves him at every turn. Mrs.
Cox is one of the brightest of the bright
women of the capital, and knows her hus-
bands work SO well that she keeps him
from many a bother.
Senator Malone was at the Capitol the
other day and he took, as usual, his lunch
of hot buckwheat cakes Malone is a dandy
as to his tastes He wears n shoe like a
ladys, and his overgaiters are knit. His
coat is bell-shaped, and his linen is almost
as fine as cambria He is as thin as rail,
and his 00pound francis n ade up of bone,
brain and muscle He is as particular as to
his eating as to his dress, and when he was
pages and walters. He is fond of buc6-
wheat cakes, but always sends back the
! first plate. Once when the waiter brought
him some most savory cakes, Drowned
to turn, he turned uphiS nose at them and
| said:
What kind of leather is thatl I ordered
cakes and want them of buckwheat Go
back to the cook and tell him that | want a
fresh plate of cakes and they must be done
brown!"
The waiter then carried the cakes out of
| the room and picking up a cold plate he slid
them off on to it, and then put them on
the stove to keep warm. A moment later
he brought this same plate in to Malone,
and Malone looked at it critically and then
gave the waiter dollar, saying: My boy,
| this looks like business and these cakes are
| fit for q kingn
Malone does not weigh 100 pounds. His
bones are as small as a diminutive lady's,
| and his brain is so active that it eats all the
! flesh off his frame. He seems this winter to
| be thinner than ever, and he shines out in
strange contrast to his handsome wife. Mrs.
| Malone watches Billy with care, and, like
| Mrs. Logan and the General, she was with
him during part of his military career.
There was no Southern officer Drawer than
Gen, Malone, and the marrow of his bones
| is made up of courage. At the battle of
Bull Run Mrs. Malone stopped few miles
off, watching the smoke and hearing the
thunder, when the report came to her that
her husband was wounded A moment
later came Mahone's servant to tell her his
masters wound was not dangerous and that
the shell had only ripped open his flesh
Mrs. Malone would not believe the mes
| sengers story. She wspt as she said; at
cannot he true. My dear will never have a
flesh wound, for there is no flesh on little
| Billy Malone"