The Alaska daily empire., 1915-11-16
WOMEN WANT
 WET AND DRY
 VOTE VALIDATED


 slTKA. Nov. l2.- The local Wo- mems Christian Temperance Union organization has unanimously adopted resolutions urging Congress aiiirma' lively to approve the act of the last Legislature which provides for on election on the question of the prohi' bition of the liquor traffic in Alaska to be held and to make effective the vote that may be recorded on the question at that time The organiza' ton realizes that there is great doubt as to the effectiveness of the election unless Congress acts. for the reason that the organic act specifics that on- iy Congress can legislate upon the subject of the manufacture and sale of liquor in Alaska.
 It is the intention of the sitka Wo- mems Christian Temperance organi- zaion to ask the local organizations in other Alaska towns to begin @ campaign to induce Congress to pass the act validating the prohibition cleo ton and Go make it effective and bind ing. The resolutions adopted by the SitlSa organization, November 10. and signed by the president and secre- tary are as follows.
 To the Senate and House of Repre-
 sentatives of the United States
 Your petitioners. the womens Christian Temperance Union of Sitka, citizens of Che United States and resi- dents of sltka. Alaska respectfully represent that
 Chapter seven of the Session Laws of Alaska for the year 1915, approved by the Governor of Alaska April 1S. 1915. provide for an expr ssion by the people of the Territory Of Alaska as to whether or not intoxicating li- Quors shall be manufactured or sold in the Territory of Alaska after the first day of January, 1918;
 This question win be submitted to the people of Alaska at the general election in November. 1916;
 Section of the Act of Congress Co create Q legislative assembly in the Territory of Alaska. to confer legislative power thereon, and for oth- CT purposes. provides that spirituous or intoxicating liquors shall not be manufactured or sold in Alaska, ex- cept under regulations and restric- tions as Congress shall prvide,
 The laws enacted by Congress for the regulation and restriction of Che manufacture and sale of spirituous or intoxicating liquors in Aalsla pro- vide Compiled Laws of Alaska, sec tion 2573) that licenses for the manu- lecture or sale of spirituoua or intoxi- eating liquors may be issued by the judges of the District Court in Alaska when it shall be known to the satlslac- tior of said Court that a majority of the white male and female citizens over the age of twenty-one years, within two miles of the place where intoxicating liquor is to be manuiac- tured or sold. have. in good faith con- sented to Che manufacture or sale Of the same.
 The people of Alaska should of right be able to prohibit the manufac- ture or sale of spirituous or intoxicat- ing liquors in the Territory Of Alaska, or any subdivision therof 1T they SO elect,
 Wherefore. we do most earnestly and respectfully petition that the First session of the Sixty-fourth Congress affirmatively ratlfy said Chapter sev- en Of the Session Laws of Alaska for 1915. and further provide that if the returns of said election in November, 1916, show that a majority of the electors in any judicial Division of the Territory of Alaska are opposed to the manufacture or sale of spiritu- ous or intoxicating liquors after the firts day of January 1918, no license shall be issued for the manufacture or sale of spirltuous or intoxicating liquors in such Division after January first, 1918
 Unanimously adopted at a regular meeting of thc Womens' Christian Temperance Union of SitSa, Alaoza. .r.H