The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-07
TANCLES FACE
| BOARD after
RESCIND VOTE
Conflicting Election Calls Likely
ms Legality Of Invalfdating
Action IA Attacked.

Special meeting OF the Rock Is
land county board OF supervisors
called yesterday to clear up the
Rock Island township boundary ex-
tension tangle adjourned after adj
ing further complications to the sit
nation.
Township questions were evacei.
Moline's petition that the board ex-
tend its city boundaries to include
that part of South Moline in the
municipal limits was laid over
until the regular session and the
effort to have the Rock Island
township action affirmed or ampl-
fed was not side-stepped.
One group charged that the hrst
action of the board extending Rock
Island township boundaries coin
cident with the city boundaries was
final and not subject to rescind-
ing action. An opposing faction
charged that the resembling action
is legal and inYalidates the boun-
dairy extension effort.
Jurisdiction of the election Of
ficials has been questioned now and
before township elections can be
called legal determination of the
boards conflicting resolutions will
be sought,
w. A. Frewert, Rock Island town
clerk, announced today that after
comforting with States Attorney B.
S. Bell, and later Mayor Fl. M.
Schriver, he will issue call for
primary election in the newly
created Rock Island township Feb.
%, the regular election to be he'd
April 4.
Legality OF the election proceed
ings can be submitted to the cir
quit court and to the supreme court
for decision under an agreed stipu-
lation of facts.
The call for the primary election
will be issued in day or two, the
town clerk said
The boards action in adjourning
without reopening the township in
corporation proposal, came after
States Attorney B. S. Bell address
ed the supervisors. He said
that the action in September
granting the request OF the city
commissioners of Rock Island for
the organization OF new township
out OF Rock Island township and
that part of South Rock Island
township coincident with the city
limits had created the new town
ship, and that the resolution passed
at the last session in January re-
scinding that action was without
effect.
Pass Moline Petition.
+ The petition Of the Moline city
rIxy dicNncaH - hxr
motion OF Supervisor William Whit
ney Of South Moline, that it be laid
over until the next meeting. The
petition contained copy of a reso-
luton passed by the city council
OF Moline, Feb. 6, and was accom-
panied by maps in which the terri
tory of the new township sought to
be created was outlined
Supervisors Harry H. Starr,
Frank Wilkey and william F.
Hansgen of the town and town &C
counts committee then presented
q resolution reciting the previous
action of the board in the Rock Is
land matter, and asked that said &C
ton be affirmed, amplified and duly
recorded as Of the minutes of the
present session.
The point was made in the reso-
luton that the request made
by the city commissioners conform
ed to the letter and spirit of the
law.
1t was made a part of the reso-
luton that the former action be
amplified by providing a map of
the recorded city limits and rec
ognizing these boundaries as of the
newly created township, and that
tho resolution and the copy Of the
boundaries affixed be made a rec
cd of the proceedings of the board
as of Feb. 6.
A motion made by Supervisors
w. II. Schillinger to adopt the
resolution precipitated a lengthy
discussion.
Bell Addresses Board.
Finally States Attorney Bell was
called in and William F. Nichols.
chairman of the judiciary commit
tee, asked if the action taken in
September, granting the petition,
was final and complete, and wheth-
er or not the board could legally
rescind the action.
Basing his remarks upon a let
ter received from the attorney gel
eral, which he read to the board,
he said it was his belief that the
new township was created by the
action Of the board in September,