This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt:...devoted a large part of its session to the discussion of prohibition. A State-wide law for submission to referendum at the election of Sept. 12, 1915, was passed, as well as a statute making effective in the State the provision of the Webb-Kenyon Federal Act, against the shipment of liquor from wet to dry territory. The statute also provided that there might be shipped not more than one gallon of alcoholic liquor to any one person in the State, during any one month. The Legislature of Tennessee passed a measure providing for the removal from office of State, county, or city officers other than holders of constitutional offices who failed to enforce the laws of the State. This is directed especially against failure to enforce the prohibition law. Other measures aiming at a more stringent enforcement of the law were passed. The Vermont Legislature voted to submit a prohibition law to the people at the municipal elections in the spring of 1916. This law makes no provision for the sale of liquor for medical purposes. In West Virginia the Legislature enacted amendments to the prohibition laws, which limited shipments of liquor into the State, and forbade a person to have liquor at a public place, even for his own use. In the New York Legislature a bill providing for State-wide referendum on prohibition was defeated. The most important election relating to liquor regulation was in Ohio where, on November 2nd, the State-wide prohibition amendment was defeated by a vote of over 40,000. In Illinois, in an election held on April 6th, most of the central and southern counties voted no-license. The women who voted at this election divided their ballots almost evenly on the issue. The elections held in Michigan on April 5th showed that the no-license voters were success...