Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-03-05
DRASTIC BILLS To
ENFORCE DRY LAW
One Provides Office of Prohibition
Commissioner.
TO PUNISH ALL vIoLATORS
Bennett Measure Permits Physicians to
Give Prescriptions, Which Must
Show What Disease Liquor is
Needed to Cure.

NEEDED 70 cure.
Madison.-Prohibltion laws seem
sure of affording the biggest fight at
this session of the legislature. Sena-
tor ]. Henry Bennett, Viroqua, has Of
fered a bill, drastic In its features, to
secure a complete enforcement of the
dry mandate. Assemblyman Frank B.
Metcalfe, Milwaukee, has offered bill
which declares that liquors containing
less than per cent Of alcohol shall
not be considered beverage.
The Metcalfe bill declares that the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors and the transportation of them
except as otherwise provided, shall be
prohibited. The bill then declares:
Intoxicating liquor, within the pur-
view OF said constitutional amendment,
shall be construed to be and include
all liquors of whatsoever name or de-
scription capable of use as a bever-
age containing more than per centum
of alcohol by weight at 60 degrees Fab
renheit.
pure grain alcohol, wines and other
liquors may be manufactured or inn
ported snto this state for medicinal,
mechanical, scientific and sacramento
purposes, and sold for such purpose
only, and may be sold exclusively for
such purposes by Wholesale druggists,
and not otherwise. Denatured alcohol
may be freely manufactured and sold.
Denatured alcohol is defined as an al
cohol to which has been added gaso-
line, carbolic acid and other sub
stances rendering 1t unfit for internal
use, TO the amount Of 5 per centum OF
its volume.
"Any person who shall vend, sell,
deal or traffic in, or for the purpose of
evading any law of this state, give
away any intoxicating liquor as herein
defined, except as herein provided,
shall be guilty of a nlisdemeanor and
upon conviction shs.l incur the penal
ty prescribed therefor. The act shall
take effect and be in force on and after
the 10Th day of January, 1920"
The Bennett bill, 146 s., of which
5000 extra copies have just been print
ed because of the demand, provides
for the creation of the Office of pro-
hibition commissioner to enforce the
law. 1t is his duty to ferret out viola
lions of the law, and he has $4,000
at his disposal to see that the laws are
obeyed. Physicians may make pre-
scriptions containing liquor, but must
keep exact record showing the purpose
for which the liquor is used and the
disease that 1t is intended to cure.
Only the proprietors of drug store
can handle the prescription and com
pound the sale.
The Bennett measure permits the
of liquors for medicinal,
mechanical and sacramentar purposes,
under regulation. Any shift or device
whatever to evade the provisions OF
this act by the lessee or occupant of
any building or premises shall, at the
option of the lessor, work forfeiture
of the lease. The measure provides
that IL any of the provisions of the
measure are declared invalid, it shall
be understood that the remaining prs
visions of the measure shall continue
in full force and effect.
BY a vote of % to 6 the senate
passed the Pullen bill revising the sal
airy list for county and district school
1t fixes the maximum
and minimum salary based on the num-
Der of schools In the district, and pro-
Eides state aid only when the salary
is allowed by the county boards.
The senate concurred in the Roethal
resolution requesting the federal trade
commission to investigate the reason
for the decline in the price of dairy
products since the signing of the arm
istiee. 1t adopted joint resolution by
Cunningham memorializing congress
and the railroad administration to en-
courage public work by lowering the
freight rates on materials to the sched-
ule In force June IS, 1918.