Show trade anecks unlawful washington aug 9 solicitor maurice D oconnell ot the treasury haa rendered a decision in which he holds that the manufacture and distribution of aluminum and brass trade checks constitute a violation of the statute enacted feb 10 1891 which prohibits the manufacture of a metal or its compound which in color inscription resembles coin government trade c distributed m by business houses such a circulation among iha email towns and loggia camps of minnesota and michigan that it is difficult to escure real money in tact it is said al the treasury that contractors at legging camps who own the stores at which the inhabitants secure the necessaries of life have inaugurated the system 0 paying their em aloyes with these checks to iha exclusion of government money federal inspectors in districts wih bo in to eceiza illegal corins warn distributors against the trade chocks if they persist in manufacturing fac turing and them the guilty ones will be vigorously prosecuted |