Arizona republican., 1916-01-22
GLENDALE RESTS EASY; WARD FIGHT
 NOW CLEARED UP
Council Holds Meeting and Asks Mayor to Appoint
 Committee

GLENDALE, Jan. 21.-Tle common council held an adjourned meeting last night, when a motion was presented ! by Betts and carried that the mayor i appoint d committee of citizens to cir ! culate petition addressed to the board | of supervisors asking that Glendale be 1 disincorporated and reincorporatd, as provided in Chapter Two of the Re , vised Statutes of 1913. This action of the council followed a joint conference of attorneys in Phoe- 1 nix yesterday when H. M. Fennesmore, F. H. Larsen and another attorney who is looking into the same question for the town of Wickenburg that is agitating Glendale, were present There I has existed difference of opinion on ] the part of attorneys as regards the authority for such towns as Glendale | being divided into wards. While each attorney maintained that his inter
 pretation of the law is correct to the
 best of his ability, yet they are all agreed that whatever course might be
 pursued under the present incorpora-
 tion would leave the town operating under a doubtful law, and the legal ad- visors were unanimous in their opin-
 ion that the proper steps to be taken by Glendale is to petition the board of
 supervisors to transfer the town from | the laws of 1907 to those of 1913, thus
 bringing us from under a doubtful
 statute and placing us under a law
 containing definite provisions for our
 operation, without in any material re- spect changing or disturbing the pres
 ent method of government
 Under the chapter which it is sought
 to have the town placed there will be
 no mayor elected, but five councfimen
 will be elected, who shall choose one
 of their number as chairman of that body. A town clerk, town marshal and supervisor of streets shall also be , elected, these three officials having heretofore been appointed by the
 council These constitute the only changes that will result from the change. All officers will be elected
 from the town at large, as heretofore. } Attorney Larsen was present at the ? meeting last night and personally pre-
 scented the plan to the council urging
 it's adoption in lieu of almost certain
 litigation that would follow any other , action open to them. J. W. Robinson, who had been one of the prime advo-
 cates of ward division, was one of the . first to voice his sentiments in favor 1 of diSincOrpOrating and reincorpOrat- = I ing under the later Jaw. Attorney l Porter and Hose Stout steadfastly maintained that the ward division
 road was the only proper avenue to be , | travelled.
 f When the mayor announced that the a vote was unanimous on the question r before the council. Attorney Porter . wanted to be sure on that point and
 asked for the roll call, to which the
 mayor and the full council answered
 Aye"
 j. W. Robinson, J. G. Hammels and
 H. C. Reed were appointed as the com
 mittee to circulate the reincorporatine petitions. And it should be remem Il bered by the citizens that the only effect of this action will be to remove
 the town from under a doubtful stat t ute and place it within the law witt
 definite provisions for the operation oi t the town government