Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-10-29
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM
ELECTION
70 he Held November 2, 1925

NOTICE OF REFERENDUM ELEC-
TION ON THE PROHIBITION
ENFORCEMENT ACT.
(''Mulberger Bill'')
State of Wisconsin, Department Of
State SIS. City of Madison.
l 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 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. JAG, S.
CHAPTER 500, LAWS OF 1919
AN ACT to suspend the operation of
chapter GO of the statutes of 1917 en-
titled Excise and sale of intoxicating
liquors" and to create sections 1865
l to 1569-22, 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 . twenty-five new sec
tons are added to the statutes to read:
Section 1J69-1. 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
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 8. Intoxicating liq-
uor, within the pur-view Of said con-
stitutional amendmentaand the provis-
and include all liquors and drinks of
whatsoever name or description, in
Guiding patent or proprietary medi-
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 valid act
ha In wv Of
and be paramount to any state laws
on the subject. define the words I'm
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
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-half per
centrm 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
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 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 APP
pointed. Any vacancy occurring In