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Last week the U.S. Congress looked away from the farm belt just long enough to: P: Add, by a 43-to-40 vote in the Senate, a John W. Bricker amendment to an otherwise routine bill increasing to $3,000,000 the annual U.S. contributions to the International Labor Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. Ohio Republican Bricker insisted that the extra money be withheld until Iron Curtain representatives are expelled from the ILO. Against Administration objections that the rider would portray the U.S. as dictating to the free world, 35 Republicans and eight Democrats voted to give Bricker his way. P: Approve, without debate in the Senate, a bill increasing the maximum Smith Act penalty for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. Government from ten years and $10,000 fine to 20 years and $20,000 fine. The House had already passed a similar bill, but the Senate added a provision barring any person convicted under the act from "holding any office of honor, trust or profit under the U.S.," returned the bill to the House for final passage. P: Pass, in the House, a resolution making "In God We Trust" the U.S. motto. P: Slash, in the House Appropriations Committee, $56.8 million from Administration requests for the State and Justice Departments and the U.S. Information Agency. The committee refused to authorize two new prisons, snorted at a State Department request to buy an unspecified number of "executive wastebaskets" at $27 each, turned down a $3,700,000 idea for converting an old aircraft carrier into a floating theater equipped to show Cinerama in seaports around the world, rejected a proposal to air-condition federal courts at a cost of $1,500,000.

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