Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-10-08
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM
ELECTION
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM ELEC-
TION ON THE PROHIBITION
ENFORCEMENT ACT.
To BE Held November 2, 1920

('Mulberger Bill")
State of Wisconsin, Department OF
State. S. City of Madison.
| MERLIN HULL, Secretary of
State of the State of Wisconsin,, do
hereby certify that the following law
is to be submitted to vote of the peO-
pie at General election to be held in
the several cities, towns, villages and
election precincts of the State of Wis
consin on the first Tuesday of NOvem-
Der. 1920, being the second say of said
month";
No 14G, S.
CHAPTER $50, LAWS OF 1919
AN ACT to suspend the operation of
chapter 66 of the statutes of 1917 en-
titled Excise and sale Of Intoxicating
liquors" and to create sections 1865
| to 1560-22. inclusive of the statutes,
relating to Intoxicating liquors. to pro
vide for the enforcement of Article is
of the Constitution of the United
States. providing penalties, making an
appropriation and defining Intoxicating
liquor.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Chapter 66 of the
statutes of Wisconsin for 1917 entitled
Excise and the sale of Intoxicating
liquors" is hereby suspended and de-
clared to be imperative so long as this
act shall be and remain in force and
effect.
SECTION 3. Twenty-Five new sec
lions are added to the statutes to read :
hi ar no
comes operative, the manufacture sale
or transportation of Intoxicating liq-
uors. as herein defined, within, the i'm
portation thereof into, or the eXpOrta-
ton thereof from the state of Wiscon-
sin, except as may be herein or here
after provided, is hereby prohibited.
Section 1865 This act shall be
deemed to be an exercise of the power
reserved and granted to this state by
Articl Is of the constitution OF the
United States.
Section 1869 8. Intoxicating liq-
uor, within the pur-view OF said con-
stitutiOnal amendment and the prOvls-
ions Of this act shall be construed to be
and include all liquors and drinks OF
Whatsoever name or description, i'll
Guiding patent or proprietary medl-
cines. capable of being used as bev-
erage containing more than two and
one-half per centum OF alcohol by
weight at sixty degrees Fahrenheit
But if the Congress of the United
States shall hereafter by a valid act
which shall become the law Of the land
and be paramount to any state laws
on the subject, define the words 'in-
tOXicating liquors. as used i'll article
IS of the constitution of the United
States. then such definition, from the
time such act of congress becomes OPP
erative, shall be the definition thereof
under this subdivision.
Section 1569-4 Pure grain alco-
hol, wines and other liquors, contain
| ing more than two and One-haf pei
centum of alcohol by weight. may be
manufactured in or imported into OF
| exported from this state for medicinal
mechanical, scientific and sacramento
purposes and sold for such purposes
only and may be so sold as herein pro
yided and not otherwise. Denaturet
alcohol may be freely manufactured
and sold, provided its manufacture
complies strictly with the laws now o.
hereafter enacted by Congress RELATIVE
thereto and the rules and regulation
issued by the department of interna
revenue.
j Section 1865 There is hereb,
created the office of prohibition Com
missioner" On or before the sixteenth
day of January, 1920, the governo
shall, by and with the advice and con
sent of the senate, appoint a suitabl
person as such prohibition commits
sioner. Such prohibition commissions
shall have his office in the capitol. a
Madison, to be provided at publ
{ expense, and such officer shall hold hi
f office for the term of four years fro1
f and after the date of his appointment
and until his successor shall be al
pointed. Any vacancy occurring