To survey fiscal relations between D.C. and federal government. Washington, D.C., Aug. 24. J.L. Jacobs, Chicago efficiency engineer, has been selected by President Roosevelt to survey fiscal relations between the District of Columbia and the federal government. Cook County assessment and tax collection machinery was a wreck and the city of Chicago faced He perfected a system if tax appraisals, and brought Cook County to a point where tax collections are now only one year in arrears of nearly three years