Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-10-22
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM
ELECTION
SOTICE OF REFERENDUM ELEC-
TION ON THE PROHIBITION
TO Be Held November 2, 1920

$OTICE OF REFERENDUM ELEC-
TION ON THE PROHIBITION
ENFORCEMENT ACT.
C"Mulberger BilfO
State of Wisconsin,, Department of
State. ss. City of Madison.
MERLIN HULL, Secretary of
State of the State of Wisconsin, do
hereby certify that the following law
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 Tuesday of NOvem-
Der, 1920, being the second say of said
month.
No. 146, ST.
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 1853
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 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 long as this
act shall be and remain in force and
effect
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-
lors. as herein defined, within, the i'm
pOrtatiOn thereof int0 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 d Intoxicating liq-
uOr, within the pur-view 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, in
Guiding patent or proprietary medi-
cines. capable of being used as bev
erage containing more than two and
one-haR: 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 Sin
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 1861. Pure grain alco-
hol. wines and other liquors, contain
ing more than, two and One-half per
oentum of alcohol by weight. may be
manufactured in or imported into or
exported from this state for medicinal,
mechanical scientific and sacramento
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 It's manufacture
complies strictly with the. laws now or
hereafter enacted by Congress relative
thereto and fle rules and regulations
issued by the department of internal
revenue.
Section 1865 There is hereby
created the office of prohibition Com
missioner On,o 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