This is something we don’t see a lot any more, but in the earlier days of our country, stick fights in Congress were not altogether uncommon.
In fact, though the names escape me, I seem to remember one senator nearly killing another after a blow to the head during a fight on the Senate floor. Can anyone help me out?
It was a Southern Senator (SC?) named Sumner who caned the crap out of some Yankee who had been spouting off about the South. I recall that the guy returned to the legislature, but it was after a long convalescence. It was a seriously bad beating.