Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-09-10
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM
ELECTION
To BE Held November 2, 1920
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM ELEC-
TION ON THE PROHIBITION
ENFORCEMENT ACT

("Mulberger Bio
State of Wisconsin, Department OF
State. IS. City of Madison.
MERLIN HULL, Secretary OF
State of the State of Wisconsin, dc
| hereby certify that the following law
is to be submitted to a vote of the peo-
pie at a General election to be held III
the several cities, towns, villages and
election precincts Of the State of Wis
0nsin on the first Tuesday Of Noveln-
! ber 1920, being the second say of said
month.
| [ No. 146. S.
CHAPTER 500. LAWS OF 1919
AN ACT to suspend the operation OF
chapter G6 of the statutes of 1917 en-
! titled Excise and sale Of Intoxicating
| liquors and to create sections 1569-
! 1 to 1569-22. inclusive. of the statutes
relating to Intoxicating liquors, to pro
Tide for the enforcement of Article Is
If the Constitution of the United
| States, providing penalties, making al
appropriation and defining Intoxicating
| liquor.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in senate and assembly. dc
enact as follows:
SECTION l. Chapter &c Of the
statutes of Wisconsin for 1917 entitled
Excise and the sale of Intoxicating
liquors" is hereby suspended and de-
Jared to re 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 1569-1. After this act be-
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
lfter provided. is hereby prohibited.
Section 1569-2 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 B, Intoxicating liq-
uor, within the pur-view of said con-
stitutiona amendment and the pr0vis-
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 medi-
1 c1lleS. CdDdblt vi DSlIlE uSSti az bSN
erage containing more than two and
| Dne-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 I'm
| toxicating liquors. as used in article
81 If M N
states, then such definition, from the
time such act Of congress becomes OPP
nrative 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-half 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 ny the department VI ihtot ii"i
revenue.
Section 1569-J 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 III