Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-09-24
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM
ELECTION
TO BE Held November 3, 1920


NOTICE OF REFERENDUM ELEC-
TION ON THE PROHIBITION
ENFORCEMENT ACT.
'Mulberger Bill')
State Of Wisconsin. Department of
State. IS. 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
:Onsin on the first Buesday of NOvem-
her, 1920. being the second say of said
month
No. 146, s.
CHAPTER 500 LAWS OF 1910
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-
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
liquor.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented iii senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION l. 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 dong as this
act shall he and remain i'll force and
effect
SECTION > Twenty-Five new sec
tiOns are added to the statutes to read:
Section 15G9-1. After this act be-
comes operative. the manufacture, sale
or transportation of Intoxicating lid
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 on here
after 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 5. Intoxicating liq-
llOr, within the pur-vieW of said con-
amendment and the prOvis-
ions of this act shall be construed TO be
and include all liquors and drinks OF
name or description, i'll
GLIDING patent or proprietary mcdl-
cineS, capable of being used as a bev
arage 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 valid act
which shall become the law of the land
and be- paramount to any state laws
On the subject. define the words in
liquors. as used in article
Is of the constitution of the United
States, then such definition, from the
line such act of congress becomes OPP
Arative. shall be the definition thereof |
mder this subdivision
Section 156914 Pure grain alco-
lol, wines and other liquors. contain
ng more than two and One-half per
'entum of alcohol by weight, may be
in or imported into or
from this state for medicinal,
scientific and sacramental
purposes and sold for such purposes
)nly and may be SO sold as herein pro-
7ided and not otherwise. Denatured
llcohOl may be freely manufactured
md sold, provided its manufacture
complies strictly with the laws now or
hereafter enacted by Congress relative
hereto and the rules and regulations
ssued by the department of internal
'evenue.
Section 1569-J. There is hereby
,reated the office of "Prohibition Com
missioner On or before the sixteenth
lay of January, 1920 the governor
hall. by and with the advice and con-
ent of the senate, appoint a suitable
,erson as such prohibition commits
ioner. Such prohibition commissioner
hall have his office in the capitol at
to be provided at public
expense, and such officer shall hold his
'ffice for the term of four years from
nd after the date of his appointment
md until his successor shall be APP
'ointed. ANY vacancy occurring in