Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-10-01
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM
ELECTION
To BE Held November 2, 1920

NOTICE OF REFERENDUM ELEC-
TION ON THE PROHIBITION
ENFORCEMENT ACT,
("Mulberger Bill")
State of Wisconsin, Department OF
State, SIS. 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 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.
mo. 146, ST.
CHAPTER $50, LAWS OF 1919
AN ACT to suspend the operation of
chapter 60 of the statutes of 1917 EN-
titled Excise and sale of Intoxicating
liquors" and to create sections 1J69-
l to 1863 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 al
appropriation and defining Intoxicating
liquor
The people of the State of Wisconsin
represented i'll senate and assembly, dc
enact as follows
SECTION /, Chapter G6 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 15G9-1. 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 eXp0rta-
ton thereof from the state of WiscOn-
sin, except as may be herein or here
after provided, is hereby prohibited.
Section 1865. 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 1860 8. Intoxicating liq-
uor, within the purview 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, III
Guiding patent or proprietary medi-
cines, capable of being used as a 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
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 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 by the department of internal
revenue.
Section 1865. There is hereby
"reated 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 publlc
expense. and such officer shall hold MS
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