Title

PROHIBITION

Proposition Summary

Initiative amendment adding sections 26 and 27 to article I of constitution. Prohibits the manufacture, sale, gift, or transportation wholly within the state, of intoxicating liquors: permits any citizen to enjoin violations; makes the showing that the manufacture, use, sale, gift or transportation was for medicinal, scientific, mechanical or sacramental purposes, a defense to civil and criminal actions, and requires regulation by law of such acts for said purposes: prohibits transportation into this state of intoxicating liquors, unless shown to be for such purposes, subject, however, to United States laws: prescribes and authorizes penalties.

Proposition Number

34

Year

1914

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Fail

Popular Vote Results

Y: 355536; A: 40.4; N: 524781; B: 59.6

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Initiative

For Author

Samuel W. Odell

Against Author

William Schuldt, Sec'y California State Brewers' Ass'n

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