The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-10-14
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM ELECTION
TO BE HELD NOVEMBER 2, 1920.
Notice of Referendum Election on the
Prohibition Enforcement Act.
(''Mulberger BilP)


Notice Of Referendum Election on the
Prohibition Enforcement Act.
("Mulberger BilP')
State of Wisconsin
Department of State SIS.
City of Madison
I MERLIN HULL, Secretary Of State of
the State of Wisconsin, do hereby certify
chat the following law is to be submitted
60 a vote Of the people at General election
20 be held in the several cities, towns,
villages and election precincts of the State
of Wisconsin on the first Tuesday of No
vember, 1920, being the second day Of said
month.
mo- 146. ST.
CHAPTER $780, LAWS OF 1919
AN ACT to suspend the operation of chap
ter sc of the statutes of 1917 entitled
Excise and the sale Of intoxicating liquors"
and to create sections 1901 to 1922,
inclusive, of the statutes, relating to in
toxicating liquors, to provide for the en-
forcement of Article IS of the Constitution
of the United States, providing penalties,t
making an appropriation and defining in
toxicating liquor.
The people Of the State of Wisconsin.
represented in senate and assembly, do enact
as follows:
SECTION 1. Chapter SO of the statutes
of Wisconsin for 1917 entitled Excise and
che sale Of intoxicating liquors" is hereby
suspended and declared to be imperative so
long as this act shall be and remain in
force and effect.
SECTION 2. Twenty-Five new sections
are added to the statutes to read: Section
l669-l. After this act becomes operative,
the manufacture. sale or transportation of
intoxicating liquors, as herein defined.
within, the importation thereof into or the
expectation thereof from the state of Wis
consin, except as may be herein or here
after provided, is hereby prohibited
Section 1863. This act shall be deemed
to be an exercise of the power reserved by
and granted to this state by Article IS of
the constitution of the United States
Section 1868. Intoxicating liquor, with
in the purview of said constitutional amend
ment and the provisions of this act shall be
construed to be and include all liquors and
drinks of whatsoever name or description,
including patent or proprietary medicines,
capable of being used as a beverage con-
tanning more than two and one-half per
centum of alcohol by weight at sixty de-
grees 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 intoxicating
LIQUORS" as used in article is Of the con-
stitution of the United States, then such
definition, from the time such act of con-
gress becomes operative, shall be the defini-
ton thereof under this subdivision.
Section 1868. Pure grain alcohol,
wines and other liquors, containing more
than two and one-haf per centum of alco-
hol 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 pur-
poses only and may be sold as herein pro-
yided and not otherwise. Denatured alcohol
may be freely manufactured and sold, pro-
vided its manufacture complies strictly with
the laws now or hereafter enacted by Con-
Rress relative thereto and the rules and
regulations issued by the department of
internal revenue.
Section 1906. There is hereby created
the office of Prohibition Commissioner"
ON or before the sixteenth day of January,
1920, the governor shall. by and with the
advice and consent of the senate, appoint a
suitable person as such prohibition commits
eioner. 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
appointed. Any vacancy occurring in said
office shall likewise be filled by executive
appointment. Said prohibition commissions
er shall receive a saiary of four thousand
dollars per year and his actual and neces
sary expenses incurred in the discharge of
his duties He shall take and subscribe the
constitutional oath of Office and file bond
for the faithful discharge Of his official du-
ties, in the sum of twenty-five thousand dol
lars, which shall be approved by the gov
ernor. Such prohibition commissioner may
appoint necessary deputies. to be known
and designated as Deputy Prohibition Gem
nissioners," and may employ all necessary
clerks and fix the compensation and re-
Enumeration of all such deputies and clerks
SO appointed and file all such appointments,
together with a statement showing the COM
pensation or salary fixed, prior to the
employe or appointee entering upon his du-
ties or employment with the secretary of
state; and such appointee or employee shall
receive the CONDENSATION so fixed to be
audited, allowed and paid on the certificate
of the prohibition commissioner in the same
manner as salaries and compensations are
now allowed and paid to state officials and
employees, The prohibition commissioner
shall have and possess a suitable official seal,
and all permits issued by him under the
provisions of this act shall have affixed
thereto clear impression OF said official
seal. Other documents may be authenticated
by printed copy of the impression of said
official seal. Said deputies may perform all
or any of the duties herein provided to be
performed by the prohibition commissioner.
All such DEPUTIES shall file such bond as the
prohibition commissioner shall require, to
he approved by the prohibition commissioner.
1t shall be the duty of the prohibition COM
missioner to exercise and perform all the
duties and acts required of him by this act.
For failure to perform such duties he shall
be subject to removal by the governor, upon
due notice and an opportunity to defend.
Section 1865 1t shall be the duty of
all district attorneys, sheriffs, deputy sher-
ifs. constables and other executive law en-
forcement officers to aid and assist said
prohibition commissioner or his deputies in
the enforcement of the provisions of this act
Section 1569-7. 1t shall be the duty of
the prohibition commissioner to designate
and issue a permit (which permit may be
revoked for causel to one or more persons
in each municipality in this state who shall
he authorized to have in possession and sell
under such general rules and regulations as
he may prescribe, alcohol, vinous, spiritu-
aus or malt liquors containing in excess of
two and one-hah percentum of alcohol by
weight to be used exclusively for medicinal,