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y(_JREIRASE wRC 2 WY, SEPTENBR. 5,1. * PAGE 2 BY PULTON LEWIS, JR. xx Manvel, Cramer brought the waatter up at several meetings of the committes. On each ococasion, the heavily-stacked committee voted along party ] lines to deny him access, | Pinally, on June 28, Cramer addressed a letter to Lewis Deschler, Parliamenterian of the House, asking for an official ruling on the subject, Two months later, Cramer has not received an answer, Deschler has told Cramer that he will discuss the case only if Blatnik is present. The Minnesota Temocrat finds it impossible to see Deschler at any time, “ In the committee files is said to be political dynamite on the Massachusetts road situation. The Bay State scandals are said to be the worst in the United Stetes. A single contractor, Thomas Worcester, was convicted of income tax evasion for deducting $275,000 worth of bribes to Massachusetts politicos. Pederal Judge Charles Wyzanski, who presided at the trial, called the payments “Worcester bounty." Information in the files is said to implicete some of the state's highest-ranking Democrats, One of these is William F. Callehan, ohairman of the State Turnpike Authority. In his trial for tax evasion, Worcester testified under cath that ne fae livered money to Callanan while he served as head of the State Public Works Department. Callahan tried vainly to avoid testifying. When he received a aubpena he waged a long legal fight to quash it, When he finelly teok the stand, Callahan denied accepting the money. Judge Wyzanski promptly called Callahan ea liar: "No one who reads in full Callahan's testimony would care to stake much on Callahan's oath. I unhesitatingly stam Callahan as an untrustworthy witness. And I accept Worcester's story of the (bribe) episode at Mrs. Norton's home." , Other Democrats involved in the Massachusetts corruption are said to inolude one current member of the U.S. House of Representatives, a number of close associates of former Governor Foster Furcolo, and several state attorneys. ### (MP) sr