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RKIRASEw?Y,SKPTEMBh..j, PAGE 2 BY PULTON LEWIS, JR. - Manuel. Cremer brought the wetter up at several meetings of the cormittee. On each occasion, the heavily-stacked cozmittee voted along party lines to deny him access. Finally, on June 28, Cramer addressed a letter to Lewis Deschler, Parliamentarian of the House, asking for an official ruling on the. subject. Two months later, Cremer has not received an answer. Deschler has told Cramer that he will discuss the case only 1f Blatnik is present. The Minnesota Democrat finds 1t 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 Onited States.. A single contractor, Thomas Worcester, was convicted of income tax evasion for deducting $275,000 worth of bribes to Massachusetts politicos. Federal Judge Charles Wyzanski, who presided at the trial, called the payments "worcester bounty.". Information in the files is said to implicate some of the state's highest-ranking Democrats. One of these is William F. Callahan, chairman of the State Turnpike Authority. In his trial for tax indirectly evasion, Worcester testiried under oath that he/delivered money to Callahan tried vainly to avoid testifying. When he received a subpena he waged a long legal fight to quash it. When he finally took the stand, Callahan denied accepting the money. Judge wyzansk1. promptly called Callahan a liar: "No one who reads in full Callahan's testimony would care to stake much on Callahan's oath. I unhesitatingly stanp 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 include one current member of the U.s. House of Representatives,. a number of close associates of former Governor Foster Furcolo, and several state attormeys. ### (MP)