Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-10-15
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM
ELECTION
TO Be Held November 2, 1920
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM ELEC-
TION ON THE PROHIBITION
ENFORCEMENT ACT.

NOIICE OE REE ERENDOM ElIEC-
TION ON THE PROHIBITION
ENFORCEMENT ACT.
("Mulberger Bin")
State of Wisconsin, Department of
State, So. 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 q vote of the peO-
pie at a 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. LAG, S.
CHAPTER 500, 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 1863
to 1863 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
'nact as follows:
SECTION /. Chapter G6 of the
statutes of Wisconsin for 1917 entitled
Excise and the sale of intoxicating
liquors" is hereby suspended and de-
Jared to be imperative SO long as this
act shall be and remain in force and
fleet
SECTION .. Twenty-Five new Sec
lions are added to the statutes to read :
Section 1861. After this act be-
.omes operative, the manufacture, sale
II transportation of Intoxicating liq-
Iors, as herein defined. within, the i'm
)OrtatiOn thereof into, or the eXpOrta-
ion thereof from the state Of Wiscon-
sin, except as may be herein or here
ifter provided, is hereby prohibited.
Section 1850. This act shall be
leemed to be an exercise of the power
reserved and granted to this state by
Articl Is of the constitution OF the
United States.
Section 1863 3. Intoxicating liq-
llor, within the puryieW OF said con-
stitutional amendment and the provis-
IONS of this act shall be construed to be
and include all liquors and drinks OF
Whatsoever name or description, i'll
:luding patent or proprietary medi-
zines. capable of being used as bev-
rage containing more than two and
)ne-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
m the subject. define the words IN
toXicating liquors. as used in article
Is of the constitution of the United
States, then such definition, from the
time such act of congress becomes OPP
arative. 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 per
centum of alcohol by weight. may be
manufactured in or imported into or
exported from this state for medicinal.
mechanical. scientific and sacramental
purposes and sold for such purposes
only and may be so sold as herein pro-
vided and not otherwise. Denatured
alcohol may be freely manufactured
and sold, provided its manufacture
complies strictly with the laws now or
hereafter enacted by Congress relative
thereto and the rules and regulations
issued by the department Of internal
revenue.
Section 1865. There is hereby
created the office of prohibition Com
missioner" On or before the sixteenth
day of January. 1920, the governor
shall, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the senate, appoint a suitable
person as such prohibition commits
Sioner. Such prohibition commissioner
shall have his Office in the capitol. at
Madison. to be provided at public
expense. and such officer shall hold his
office for the term of four years from
and after the date of his appointment
and until his successor shall be ap-
pointed Any vacancy occurring in