Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1919 — REFERENDUM CAN’T BE HELD [ARTICLE]

REFERENDUM CAN’T BE HELD

Michigan Attorney General So Rules in Opinion Rendered on Dry Amendment Lansing, Mich., Aug. I.—A referendum vote on ratification of the federal prohibition amendment cannot be held in Michigan, Attorney General Groesbeck rukdd in advising the secretary of state not to accept initiatory petitions to that end filed by the Michigan State Hotel Men’s association. The attorney general holds that the state referendum clause applies only to legislation by bill, and does not cover amendment to the federal Constitution.