The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-10-21
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM ELECTION
TO BE HELD NOVEMBER 2, 1920.
Notice of Referendum Election on the
Prohibition Enforcement Act
(''Mulberger BilP')


Department of State SIS.
City Of Madison
T 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 people at General election
to 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. 81
CHAPTER 556, 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 1851 to 1869,
inclusive, of the statutes. relating to in
toxicatinR liquors to provide for the en-
forcement of Article 10 of the Constitution
of the United States, providing penalties,
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 sc of the statutes
of Wisconsin for 1917 entitled Excise and
the 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
1569-1. 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 may be herein or here
after provided, is hereby prohibited. s
Section 1862. This act shall be deemed
to be an exercise of the power reserved by
and granted to this state by Article 1s of
- L.. Al ArAn
Section 1868. Intoxicating liquor, with
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 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 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 net of con-
Eress becomes operative, shall be the deini-
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-
vided 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-
gress relative thereto and the rules and
regulations issued by the department OF
internal revenue.
Section 1868. 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
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
appointed. Any vacancy occurring in said
Office shall likewise be filed by executive
appointment. Said prohibition commission
or shall receive salary 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
nScVSSdES OeputlSSs TO De known
and designated as Deputy Prohibition Com
missioners,' 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 statement showing the COM
pensation or salary so fixed prior to the
employe or appointee entering upon his du-
ties or employment with the secretary of
state; and such appointee or employe shall
receive the compensation 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 or 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
be 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 1866. 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 1857 1t shall be the duty of
the prohibition commissioner to designate
and issue a permit (which permit may be
revoked for cause) to one or more persons
in each municipality in this state who shall
he authorized to have in possession and sell
ulder such general rules and regulations as
he may prescribe. alcohol vinous, spiritu-
>us or malt liquors containing in excess of
wo and one-half percentum of alcohol by